Impilo: what's in a name?

Why Impilo as a name for the project? I looked at many Linux distributions before settling my choice to Ubuntu; after, I needed a name. I played with some and got stuck playing the BioBlaBla or BlaBlaBio game and so on. Then I had a flash: I simply had to comeback to the source Since Ubuntu is a zulu word, I decide to look for a zulu name that would sound like it belong and that sounded good. Since in bioinformatics, you find bio as a prefix and that bios == Life in greek, how about Life in zulu. Well, Life == Impilo.

There you have it, the whole story!

— Sylvain Foisy 2010/04/23 14:58