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TIL Debian releases are named after Toy Story characters (wiki.debian.org)
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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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[–] The_Zen_Cow_Says_Mu@infosec.pub 24 points 4 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] superkret@feddit.org 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Still better than Ubuntu's Horny Herring naming scheme.

[–] embed_me@programming.dev 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

But to its credit its alphabetical

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 5 points 4 months ago

And memorable!

[–] gencha@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

And has been for so long, they already went through it once

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

I actually like Mint's naming scheme, of alphabetical women's names that end in an a sound. Only one problem: They decided to go with the minor upgrade cycle during Mint 17. The 17th letter is Q. I'm frankly surprised they were even able to think of "Quiana." That's why the rest of the 17s were R names, Rafaela, Rebecca etc. so now they're off by one.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They do

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not in the apt sources list they don't. It's very annoying.

[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You can use version numbers, but it's on you to change them when new point releases drop.

https://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian12.6/

[–] delirious_owl 2 points 4 months ago

Why cant I just use /Debian12/ ?

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It should be the default. The silly names should just be for marketing and used for nothing that matters.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Its used for the repos

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

Yes, that is my complaint, thanks.

[–] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 9 points 4 months ago

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

[–] gencha@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

Numbers give the wrong impression that one version follows another. Debian release channels exit alongside each other individually. Giving the release channels names helps to make that distinction. It also makes for an easy layout of packages in APT repositories.

Sid is and always has been Sid. If you were to assign numbers, what number should replace that name? There are perfectly working labels for release channels and there is no reasonable replacement.