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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] 43 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How many years until they run out of characters?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And when will they release 'Hooker'?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

Debian 69?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Plenty, as well as the upcoming release of Toy Story 5.

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

That's what I thought. I think the most popular name they have actually used is Jessie.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Especially when you realise main releases happen every five years, or so

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh they should definitely choose Rocky as name for the next Debian release.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That would probably cause confusion with Rocky Linux when googling.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Yes that was the point.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And if they ever run out of Toy Story characters, the Marvel universe has thousands of other characters...

Not to mention other Pixar film characters.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

They'll be fine. Remember when we all joked about Covid-19 Omega variant a few years ago?