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TIL Debian releases are named after Toy Story characters (wiki.debian.org)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I love the Linux world's tradition of less serious names, in general.

I hate it. Which came out later, "stretch", "Woody", "Jessie"? It's so annoying to have to look that up.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Which came later, Windows XP, ME, or Vista? Sure, you probably have that memorized, but if you didn't it wouldn't be immediately obvious. That's just a problem with using codenames instead of numbers, nothing to do with unserious names. At least Debian releases have reasonable version numbers alongside the codenames, unlike some other operating systems!

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You've made my point. Code names are a bad idea.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I guess it's a good thing the Debian releases all have version numbers then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Take a look in /etc/apt.sources* and tell me what you see.