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		microcolonel on May 27, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A new Linux kernel source code cross-referencer in... If by so many, you mean more than 170,000 in active use, plus all the puns, plays on words, or portmanteaus which don't qualify as words but can easily be the name of a software project.

lmitchell on May 27, 2017 [–]

And there are 10 million Github repos out there!

So yeah... we're running out. ;)

kerneldeveloper on May 27, 2017 | [–]

Maybe we have to concatenate some words and create a new word which doesn't exist in English dictionary to get a unique project name :)

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