Future challenge for Debian GNU/Linux ?

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vainrveenr

Feb 10, 2010
9:34 PM EDT
With Google now using "Buzz" for its service, what names can Debian GNU/Linux still use for future releases ?? Debian's Toy Story-based naming history through the present has been hamm, slink, potato, woody, sarge, etch, lenny, squeeze, sid

According to List of Toy Story characters at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Toy_Story_characters , remaining unused main names are andy, bo/peep, buzz/lightyear, hannah, hockey, mike, rex, rolypoly, spell, wheezy

If Google's current use of "buzz" would lead to future confusion should the Debian Project maintainers choose the same name, then would perhaps "lightyear" be a clearer Debian release name (assuming thit this would ever become necessary in the distant future) ??



Steven_Rosenber

Feb 10, 2010
11:28 PM EDT
Hopefully we'll all be enjoying Debian Wheezy in the very near future.
ComputerBob

Feb 10, 2010
11:50 PM EDT
Coming soon: "My Debian Adventure 12: Wheezy & KDE9"
tuxchick

Feb 11, 2010
12:19 AM EDT
Debian Codger, Debian Dotard, Debian Geezer. The Linux for the rest of us!
azerthoth

Feb 11, 2010
1:09 AM EDT
debian dementia, debian senility, and debian depends.
bigg

Feb 11, 2010
6:53 AM EDT
Debian 1.1 was Buzz:

http://www.debian.org/distrib/archive

Bo and Rex have also been used. Plus Toy Story 3 will be out this summer.
Sander_Marechal

Feb 11, 2010
7:32 AM EDT
Yes. We should all petition Pixar to put some extra characters in Toy Story 3 to ensure that Debian doesn't run out of names in the near future....

:-)

Anyone got naming suggestions for new Toy Story characters?
tuxchick

Feb 11, 2010
10:47 AM EDT
Sander, pay attention! Az and I just did!

Ubuntu Carping Crotchet.
bigg

Feb 11, 2010
10:51 AM EDT
How about an iPad? And there were lots of suggested offshoots for that...
chalbersma

Feb 11, 2010
12:38 PM EDT
@ Sander Name one blow. We'll call it a wolf but we all know it'll be a drug dealer :)

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