knoppix plural / collective noun?

[outanet]

I have found myself in the unlikly position of an IT mentor in a multicultural center in my city.
I have been using Knoppix to teach office skills, simple web design & ftp with basic network theory and hardware maintainance.
I love to use knoppix, as it just works and there is no fear of newbie pc murder, plus I see myself in a good position to evangelise Linux to people who cannot afford M$ licences!

my somewhat jovial question is this.

what do you call a collection of knoppix disks / os's or networked pcs?

one knoppic, two knoppixis (golumn)
is it one knoppix, two knoppiae?

indeed should my 2 year collection of old disks be reffered to as a plethera of knoppiae

I think it could be important as the interest grows.

[user unknown]

In german, I would say: 1 knoppix, 2 knoppixe
But since the name is in some way derived from unix, I would look at this.
Isn't it 1 unix, 2 unixes?
And therefore knoppixes.

[arkaine23]

The plural of Unix is Unices, which would make it Knoppices if you follow that same pattern.

[CrashedAgain]

what do you call a collection of knoppix disks / os's or networked pcs?

one knoppic, two knoppixis (golumn)
is it one knoppix, two knoppiae?

indeed should my 2 year collection of old disks be reffered to as a plethera of knoppiae

I think it could be important as the interest grows.

Plethora of knoppiae??
Cool term but unfortunately the correct pluralization for a collection of knoppix disks is.....disks.
Disk is the noun which is pluralized, knoppix is an merely an adjective. I cannot really visualize where knoppix would be used as a noun. For instance, you do not have a knoppix (noun). You have a knoppix operating system (adjective).
Bummer.

[user unknown]

'Knoppix' is a proper noun, and eo ipso: a noun.
A Knoppix-OS is like a Mercedes-Caravan and a Knoppix-disk is like an Addidas-shoe.

You wouldn't say: 'This is my third knoppix-os', but 'my third knoppix'.
Like 'your second Mercedes'.
I bought 20 Knoppices for the pupil in my course.

I vote for 'knoppices' to indicate the close neighbourship to unices.
But do you call it 'linuces' too?

[j.drake]

'Knoppix' is a proper noun, and eo ipso: a noun.
A Knoppix-OS is like a Mercedes-Caravan and a Knoppix-disk is like an Addidas-shoe.

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But "Adidas" come in pairs. If you lost the left one, wouldn't the remaining right one be an "Adida"? Or, perhaps if it's a Latin root, perhaps the pair should rightfully be "Adida", and the remaining shoe an "Adidum"

jd

[outanet]

Plethora of knoppiae??
Cool term but unfortunately the correct pluralization for a collection of knoppix disks is.....disks.
Disk is the noun which is pluralized, knoppix is an merely an adjective. I cannot really visualize where knoppix would be used as a noun. For instance, you do not have a knoppix (noun). You have a knoppix operating system (adjective).
Bummer.

I dont think i agree completly.
I am a "human being", therefore "human", we are all "humans", not just "beings".

ok, well what can a person who uses knoppix called?
a person who works in a garden is a gardener, but i guess i dont come close to being a knopper.
then again, thinking about it, i could be a rammer.... i work in a ram environment!

[user unknown]

I believe Adidas is a artifact, made from 'Adi Daschner', the founder of the buisiness, and not from something latin (while 'nike' is the greek goddess of success - afaik, and therefore not spelled english/ american, but 'neeka').

A pair of Adidas, and a single Adidas.

The knoppix-user might be:
Knoppicaner.
Knoppinist.
Knoppixer.
Knoppophilic.

Or simply a Knop.

While windows-users are simply called: idiots

[chris-harry]

now this is the time to make up names, and if it sounds cool, it will stick... when i had trouble thats what i do...

eg. 1= knoppix, 2=knoppixs, 3=ya mum, 4=um... , 5=hello, etc...

[chris-harry]

Knop

that sounds alot like nob... and if you have a discusting minde... ehehehe... well... lets keep this innocent