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The codenames for every major Debian release are named after characters from Pixar's Toy Story franchise. Debian's unstable release is fittingly named after Sid, an unstable character from the Toy Story movies.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Still better than Ubuntu's Horny Herring naming scheme.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

But to its credit its alphabetical

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

And memorable!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

And has been for so long, they already went through it once

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I actually like Mint's naming scheme, of alphabetical women's names that end in an a sound. Only one problem: They decided to go with the minor upgrade cycle during Mint 17. The 17th letter is Q. I'm frankly surprised they were even able to think of "Quiana." That's why the rest of the 17s were R names, Rafaela, Rebecca etc. so now they're off by one.