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Naming Schemes What do you use? A good naming scheme is scalable, unique, and easy to remember. The purpose of these naming schemes is to name network computers, but it can also be used to name projects, products, variables, streets, pets, kids, or any other project where unique names and rememberable names are required. By the way, if you are actually going to use one of these themes, be sure to read RFC 1178 and RFC 2100. Pages with a "*" need work. Anyone is welcome to contribute - simply click "Edit" on any page to which you would like to contribute! If you add a naming scheme, please add a link to it on this page. If you know of a scheme you like, go to Wikipedia and look for a "List of..." page related to your chosen theme. tl;dr: xkcd910 By category Categories By server type Database Server, Email Server, File Server, Firewalls, Monitoring Server, Routers, Web Server, Workstations Other By Number 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse 5 Senses* Rivers of Greek Underworld 6 Chess Pieces 7 Continents Days of Week Seven Deadly Sins Seven Dwarves Seven colors of rainbow Sons of Fëanor 9 Planets/Stars (Planets) Reindeer* Team Fortress 2 Classes Gilligan's Island Characters The Nine Muses of Arts and Learning The Muses of Greek Mythology 12 Apostles Calendar Months Chinese Calendar Knights of the Round Table Tribes of Israel Zodiac Signs 24 Greek Alphabet* Runes Batman Characters 27 Books of the New Testament 39 Books of the Old Testament 66 Books of the Bible Linux Flavors Alpine Linux Antix ArchLinux Backtrack (defunct) Caldera (defunct) CentOS Conectiva (defunct) DamnSmallLinux Debian Dreamlinux Fedora Gentoo Kali Knoppix Linux from Scratch Lunar-Linux Mageia Mandrake (defunct) Mandriva MEPIS Mint Morphix Progeny (defunct) Puppy RedHat Sabayon Slackware Stampede SUSE Tom's Root Boot Trustix Secure Linux (defunct) TurboLinux (defunct) Ubuntu UserMode Linux Vector Void Linux YellowDog Yggdrasil (defunct)

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