Any well-known generic word is very likely to already have been used by a bunch of projects, some of them already prominent. By now, the best project name is a pronounceable but unique string, for ease of search engine use. Ironically, "systemd" is a good name in this regard, as are "runit" or even "s6".

▲ lrvick 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

I use tiny init systems regularly in AWS Nitro Enclaves. Having the enclave and init system both named nitro is not ideal.

	▲	nine_k 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Dinit, runit, tini -- all avoid the name clash :)

▲ Y_Y 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Any well-known generic word is very likely to already have been used by a bunch of projects,

Are you sure? There are lots of words, and not so many projects that use words like these as their names.

Of the 118179 packages I see on this Ubuntu 18.04 system I can roughly roughly ask how many have names that are dictionary (wamerican) words:

  comm -12 <(apt-cache dumpavail | awk -F': ' '/^Package:/{sub(/^lib/,"",$2); print $2}') /usr/share/dict/words | wc -l

This gives 820 (or about 1000 if you allow uppercase). Not so scientific, but I think a reasonable starting point.

▲ entropie 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

nitronit obviuously