release names

Netstat -vat: "Among the bits of minutiae that I personally find entertaining about the Linux distribution release cycle is how different distros come up with their respective release names."

Everybody loves the wild and wacky names that end up gracing releases of the various Linux distributions throughout the year, even if some of them — we're not going to name names, that might hurt our karma — have gotten a bit more bizarre of late.

Among the more interesting processes for picking release names comes from the Fedora Project, where unlike most other distributions, the new name must share a unique link to its predecessor.