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And Debian releases are named for Toy Story characters.
by not2b 3y ago
And Debian releases are named for Toy Story characters.
- gofreddygo 3y agoJeez, I never could draw the connection between those Debian names and Toy Story characters. Till now. Thank you. TIL!
- dylan604 3y agoThe only release I knew by name was Woody, but for others curious, here's a page with the releases names listed: https://www.debian.org/releases/ https://www.debian.org/releases/ I love the homages/easter eggs in the *nix world
- djmips 3y agoWheezy stuck in my mind. Good to finally know how it came to be! Funny that Wheezy is a penguin!
- dylan604 3y agoYeah, Wheezy does sound familiar as well. I ran a Woody server in a co-lo for a personal side hustle, so I was familiar with it. After that, work took me into the RHEL realm with lots of CentOS with much less interesting names like 5, 6, 7.
- rootbear 3y agoBruce Perens, a major figure in Debian Linux, worked at Pixar for years. He was my officemate for a while when I was there in the late 90s.
- i386 3y agoI had the opportunity to visit Pixars office at Emeryville 20 years ago. Loved the garden shed offices!
- cylinder714 3y agoThe espresso milkshakes at Rudy's Can't Fail Cafe--well, the food is fine, but the shakes are glorious.
- 29athrowaway 3y agoAnd Debian itself is a combination of Deb and Ian, Deb being Ian's partner at the time. Deb broke up with Ian and then Ian had a tragic end. It is a name surrounded by tragedy.
- geerlingguy 3y agoNow we're getting more tangential, but for years, Ansible releases were named for Van Halen songs (see old Changelog here: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v1.8.4/CHANGELOG.md https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v1.8.4/CHANGELOG.md)
- jhbadger 3y agoAnd R releases are named after (often obscure) quotes from the comic strip Peanuts (current release "Eggshell Igloo")
- paledot 3y agoSid, the unstable build, is named for the child antagonist in Toy Story.