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TIL Debian releases are named after Toy Story characters (wiki.debian.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It made me wince when Android did away with its dessert based codenames and now they're just 'Android 12' etc. It really went corporate after that direction.

And please tell me RebeccaBlackOS shows a cool popup or console message every Friday.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

They didn't:

Android 12: Snow Cone
Android 13: Tiramisu
Android 14: Upside Down Cake
Android 15: Vanilla Ice Cream

They stopped using the codenames in marketing, but they are still there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Happy to be corrected. But I still wish they were used prominently as it used to be before.