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Ubuntu releases are always alliterative Adjectival Animals (assigned alphabetically).
by a_e_k 4y ago
Ubuntu releases are always alliterative Adjectival Animals (assigned alphabetically).
- yegle 4y agoI'm surprised this is not mentioned on Ubuntu's wiki but this is called Alliteration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliteration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliteration
- alisonkisk 4y agoone project, RedHat/Fedora or something, was a pattern like "word A", "word B related to word A", "word C related to an alternate meaning of word B", etc.
- a_e_k 4y agoYes, both RedHat and Fedora used a free association-like naming scheme. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/History_of_Red_Hat_Linux https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/History_of_Red_Hat_Linux https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/releases/name_history/ https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/releases/name_history/ (Vouched for parent comment since it was on-topic.)
- capableweb 4y agoBackground for the curious: > So, what's with the "Funky Fairy" naming system? Many sensible people have wondered why we chose this naming scheme. It came about as a joke on a ferry between Circular Quay and somewhere else, in Sydney, Australia: > lifeless: how long before we make a first release? > sabdfl: it would need to be punchy. six months max. > lifeless: six months! thats not a lot of time for polish. > sabdfl: so we'll have to nickname it the warty warthog release. > And voila, the name stuck. (First Ubuntu release was "Ubuntu 4.10 - Warty Warthog") https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames
- BiggsHoson 4y agoThis naming scheme seemed extremely shortsighted to me as it wreaks havoc on Internet text searches. It forces one to search for numerous possible references to a release: the adjective alone, the animal name alone, the release number, maybe abbreviations or nicknames of the code name, and so on.
- tragictrash 4y agoYou know there's also a version number, always worked great for me.
- noirbot 4y agoThe issue I have more often is that APT repos generally are just named "jammy" or such, and then you have to remember which release that was.