Fedora Release Name process ended
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Fedora Release Name process ended
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Re: Fedora Release Name process ended
#2This is coming after Fedora 17 Beefy Miracle and Fedora 18 Spherical Cow.
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#3Fedora naming convention was always a bit strange.
we went from Sulfur, Cambridge, Leonidas and Constantine (examples)
to Beefy Miracle, Spherical Cow... and... Heisenbug..
the previous names seem stronger to me for some reason.
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#4Good. The last handful of release names were moronic, and the number of person-hours wasted debating the merits of the various names in IRC and on mailing lists was staggering.
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#5Fedora naming convention was always a bit strange. we went from Sulfur, Cambridge, Leonidas and Constantine (examples) to Beefy Miracle, Spherical Cow... and... Heisenbug.. the previous names seem stronger to me for some reason.
I think they choose silly names on purpose, to stop people from referring to the code names when talking about the finished product.
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#6Fedora naming convention was always a bit strange. we went from Sulfur, Cambridge, Leonidas and Constantine (examples) to Beefy Miracle, Spherical Cow... and... Heisenbug.. the previous names seem stronger to me for some reason.
No stranger than a very popular distro that uses names from Toy Story for its releases.
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#7Perhaps Ubuntu will follow suit. They have came up with some really stupid names over the years and, as a non-Ubuntu user, it's impossible to keep track of what actual version "Retarded Rhino" corresponds to.
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#8Fedora naming convention was always a bit strange. we went from Sulfur, Cambridge, Leonidas and Constantine (examples) to Beefy Miracle, Spherical Cow... and... Heisenbug.. the previous names seem stronger to me for some reason.
The earlier Fedora names were similar to the old RHL names: a single word with no (apparent) obvious meaning; it was like they were drawn from a hat. IIRC, we had Colgate, Vanderbilt, Biltmore, Hurricane, Apollo (the last best release, IMO), Cartman, Zoot, Guinness, Enigma, and several others I can't recall.
The more recent Fedora names seemed to be a spin off of Ubuntu's naming (which, personally, as a non-Ubuntu user, I think is stupid).
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#9Fedora naming convention was always a bit strange. we went from Sulfur, Cambridge, Leonidas and Constantine (examples) to Beefy Miracle, Spherical Cow... and... Heisenbug.. the previous names seem stronger to me for some reason.
No stranger than a very popular distro that uses names from Toy Story for its releases.
FWIW, there is at least a "method to the madness" behind the naming of Debian releases. Fedora and Ubuntu, for example, seem to come up with names at random.
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#10Good. The last handful of release names were moronic, and the number of person-hours wasted debating the merits of the various names in IRC and on mailing lists was staggering.
I think it wasn't always bad. It gave personality to projects. But I agree with you that it's time to move on.