Tom, I Can Name That Distro in Two Notes

Courtesy Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community  Tue, 05/19/2009 - 10:00

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.

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