Why is it called XenForo, anyway?

[Dragapult]

Does the word have any meaning? Why did the development team choose to go with this name?

 

[AdrianH]

"Glasshopper, why look beyond the beyond ? Sit,breath and enjoy"

 

[Eric J.]

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/xenforo-meaning.101/#post-1263

 

[Dragapult]

Oh, sorry, I somehow missed the topic.

 

[Anthony Parsons]

It would be easy to miss with the amount of topics created in such a small space. Don't feel bad... I think the forum is a little overwhelmed as well

 

[Ahmed]

Anyway, is Xen a native English word? I can't get a clear meaning for it, Can anyone help with that?

 

[DSF]

Anyway, is Xen a native English word? I can't get a clear meaning for it, Can anyone help with that?

Look her

 

[Ahmed]

Thanks DSF, So is that the Xen which they mean (virtual-machine monitor)? or they mean something else? I just can't get the full meaning in XenForo that XF team intended to have it in the name of this forum.

 

[Jason]

Anyway, is Xen a native English word? I can't get a clear meaning for it, Can anyone help with that?

No, it's a variant of the prefix 'xeno' which is derived from the Greek word 'xenos'.

 

[Ahmed]

And what does the prefix 'xeno' or 'xenos' mean?
Does it mean: foreign, stranger as it stated HERE?
If so, then the meaning of XenForo is something like: "Unique Forum", "Out Standing Forum" Or "Alien Forum ", right?

 

[Chris M]

Alien Forum

 

[pablo escobar]

well, then another appropriate term could have been.....

xenFori

 

[Ahmed]

Which means ... ?!

 

[Green Cat]

Alien Forum it is

 

[Enigma]

I sort of assumed "xen" was a stylized/invented variant of "zen". But I really have nothing to base that on.