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rc__buggy ,

Unstable branch is always Sid, 'cause he’s so unstable. They just changed experimental to rc-buggy.

I know you named Sid, but it’s a rolling release so it never gets a new name.

superkret , (edited )

I love the Linux world’s tradition of less serious names, in general.

I guess when the OS is free, you don’t need to get the marketing people involved as much.
The kernel was almost named Freax. Then there’s GNU, Slackware, KDE which was originally the Kool Desktop Environment, The GIMP (released 1 year after Pulp Fiction), …
It’s often due to the devs creating it as a hobby project and giving it a light-hearted name to show it’s nothing professional or important - and then it becomes important later.

My favorite right now is RebeccaBlackOS, which is the only current distro built around Wayland’s reference compositor Weston, showcasing all the capabilities Wayland has.
Unlike Hannah Montana Linux, it has no Rebecca Black theming at all. It’s just called that because the dev is a fan of hers.

IsoKiero ,

GNU

Which stands for ‘GNU is not Unix’. Also ‘less’ (which is more). Pine is(was) Program for Internet News and Email and the FOSS fork is ‘Alpine’ or ‘Alternatively Licensed Program for Internet News and Email’. And there’s a ton more of wordplays and other more or less fun stuff on how/why things are named like they are.

UnfortunateShort ,

I find it kinda sad that KDE is attempting to stop it’s series of K-puns. I suspect that some app names are/were intentionally bad. Like Kcalc instead of Kalculator? Kome on…

superkret ,

Their app names were one of the main reasons I disliked KDE for a long time.
It’s just objectively impractible when half the software installed on your pc starts with the same letter.
But Gnome and Xfce aren’t any better in that regard.

TCB13 ,
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They should’ve moved to mountains a while ago, before Apple did it. After all a distro as stable as Debian is the only one deserving rock solid stuff.

The_Zen_Cow_Says_Mu ,

unfortunately there’s no rhyme or reason to the naming. which came first: bookworm, buster, or bullseye? They should just use numbers.

DarkMetatron ,

Yeah, they should have used the names in alphabetical order, like Ubuntu with their codenames.

superkret ,

Still better than Ubuntu’s Horny Herring naming scheme.

possiblylinux127 ,

They do

SpaceNoodle ,

Relevant XKCD: xkcd.com/1053/

eRac ,

Similarly, VLC names their releases after Discworld characters. It’s a fun way to make major versions feel like more than just a number increment.

JetpackJackson ,

Huh TIL! That’s cool

clb92 ,

The Vorbis audio codec was also named after Vorbis from Small Gods, the 13th Discworld book.

corvus ,
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How many years until they run out of characters?

Charger8232 OP ,

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

TheImpressiveX ,
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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.

jwt ,

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

superkret ,

That would probably cause confusion with Rocky Linux when googling.

jwt ,

Yes that was the point.

hemko ,

And when will they release ‘Hooker’?

corvus ,
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Debian 69?

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