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Author SHA1 Message Date
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 0dc85765fb hostname-wordlist: add more colors/weathers/worlds
The color list is extended by searching, suggestions from llms, etc.
In particular, I included "-ish" variants of common colors: "greenish",
"reddish", etc. They are easy to identify and I think quite distinct from
the base versions.

For weather words, add more stuff. Some are not commonly used, but mostly
easy to spell. In the worst case, people learn more about dreary weather.

For worlds, add a bunch of solar system moons, asteroids, trans-Neptunian
objects, and mythological realms.

This raises the number of combinations from 68'880 to appox. 2'300'000,
making collisions and repeats less likely.
2026-09-07 11:01:49 +01:00
Michael Vogt 3b4c759a07 hostname-wordlist: replace "petnames" wordlists
The petnames wordlist added in [1] is Apache-2.0 and this
causes problems with the distribution of systemd as the
GPL-2 and Apache-2.0 are considered incompatible by the FSF.

So this commit replaces the previous wordlist with
a new one:
- weather (basic english weather adjectives)
- colors (basic english color names)
- worlds (planets, moons, minor bodies of the solar system)

All common vocabulary and compiled for this project, not taken
from anywhere.

An example with the new list:
- wintry-rust-dione-9393
- warm-yellow-saturn-39f9

The "worlds" are picked on the following principles:
- well-known
- memorable
- short(ish)
- cool

This is why e.g. we have "thetis" (an astroid) instead of
"tethys" (a moon): easier to spell and more well known.

[1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/42566
2026-08-28 12:45:23 +02:00