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Fedora 20 Will Be Named Heisenbug

34 points by hanuca 13y ago

jrubinovitz 13y ago
I was really hoping this was a "Breaking Bad" reference (Walter "Heisenberg" White and his fedora).
- hanuca 13y ago
  I was actually hoping to see it called "Santa Claus" :))
- haakon 13y ago
  Walter White wears a pork pie hat, not a fedora.
- BlackDeath3 13y ago
  Well, it's a reference to Werner Heisenberg's principle, which is what is (I believe) referred to by Breaking Bad's Heisenberg, so they're sort of reference siblings!
freyrs3 13y ago
An improvement over "Beefy Miracle".
outside1234 13y ago
This should be subtitled: "why you should name your own releases".
th0br0 13y ago
By the way, this was the original announcement: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2013-September/003181.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2013-Sept... I love how "20" only got 1 vote;)
dysoco 13y ago
If there's something I love about Fedora is it's names... not sure what was wrong with "Beefy Miracle", honestly, I liked that one too.
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kunai 13y ago
Aw, I wanted it to be "Geometric Troglodyte."
noir_lord 13y ago
Are they certain?
- dredmorbius 13y ago
  Yes, but they have no idea where the release is, or when it will happen.
  - noir_lord 13y ago
    We should send the dev team a hungry Leopard in a box :).
triplesec 13y ago
Now that we know its name variable, we can have no idea when it will be released.
gonnakillme 13y ago
We should stop linking to Softpedia. It's a spammy site that mirrors tons of software projects (e.g., most if not all new releases on PyPI) unofficially in order to serve ads.
jeffjose 13y ago
Heisenbug is a kind of bug that exists and doesnt exist at the same time. Morever, the moment you think you caught it - it slips out from your fingers. Interesting choice of name for an operating system.
nextw33k 13y ago
I hate code names, they are meant for the developers but still get used after release. Then you get support calls from people saying "Oh, yes I've got that Lion computer." Stick with a simple number, people generally can count and know how old something is by its number. Who knows (without looking it up) how old Oneiric Ocelot is?
- captainmuon 13y ago
  Fedora chooses silly names on purpose so that people outside of the development team don't refer to them. That said, I actually prefer code names. I know my desktop computer is running Lion, and my laptop is running Ubuntu Quantum something (I just looked it up, Quantal Quetzal, but really I only need to know the first letter, because Ubuntu releases are alphabetic.) I have no clue what version number I am using (I guess it is OSX 10.7.something, and something between Ubuntu 11.10 and 13.04). (I also don't know what CentOS version I am using at work, because it's really hard to find out (stashed in some file in /etc, of which I don't know if it is up-to-date or leftover from a previous installation), but it's something ancient.)

34 points by hanuca 13y ago

jrubinovitz 13y ago

I was really hoping this was a "Breaking Bad" reference (Walter "Heisenberg" White and his fedora).

hanuca 13y ago
I was actually hoping to see it called "Santa Claus" :))
haakon 13y ago
Walter White wears a pork pie hat, not a fedora.
BlackDeath3 13y ago
Well, it's a reference to Werner Heisenberg's principle, which is what is (I believe) referred to by Breaking Bad's Heisenberg, so they're sort of reference siblings!

freyrs3 13y ago

An improvement over "Beefy Miracle".

outside1234 13y ago

This should be subtitled: "why you should name your own releases".

th0br0 13y ago

By the way, this was the original announcement: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2013-September/003181.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2013-Sept... I love how "20" only got 1 vote;)

dysoco 13y ago

If there's something I love about Fedora is it's names... not sure what was wrong with "Beefy Miracle", honestly, I liked that one too.

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kunai 13y ago

Aw, I wanted it to be "Geometric Troglodyte."

noir_lord 13y ago

Are they certain?

dredmorbius 13y ago
Yes, but they have no idea where the release is, or when it will happen.
- noir_lord 13y ago
  We should send the dev team a hungry Leopard in a box :).

triplesec 13y ago

Now that we know its name variable, we can have no idea when it will be released.

gonnakillme 13y ago

We should stop linking to Softpedia. It's a spammy site that mirrors tons of software projects (e.g., most if not all new releases on PyPI) unofficially in order to serve ads.

jeffjose 13y ago

Heisenbug is a kind of bug that exists and doesnt exist at the same time. Morever, the moment you think you caught it - it slips out from your fingers. Interesting choice of name for an operating system.

nextw33k 13y ago

I hate code names, they are meant for the developers but still get used after release. Then you get support calls from people saying "Oh, yes I've got that Lion computer." Stick with a simple number, people generally can count and know how old something is by its number. Who knows (without looking it up) how old Oneiric Ocelot is?

captainmuon 13y ago
Fedora chooses silly names on purpose so that people outside of the development team don't refer to them. That said, I actually prefer code names. I know my desktop computer is running Lion, and my laptop is running Ubuntu Quantum something (I just looked it up, Quantal Quetzal, but really I only need to know the first letter, because Ubuntu releases are alphabetic.) I have no clue what version number I am using (I guess it is OSX 10.7.something, and something between Ubuntu 11.10 and 13.04). (I also don't know what CentOS version I am using at work, because it's really hard to find out (stashed in some file in /etc, of which I don't know if it is up-to-date or leftover from a previous installation), but it's something ancient.)