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Fedora Project Taking Ideas For Next Release Name

December 03, 2008 (4:00:00 PM) - 11 months, 3 weeks ago

Distribution naming schemes are one of the more humorous aspects of the open source community. Ubuntu uses an adjective followed by an animal name (Intrepid Ibex, Jaunty Jackalope), while Debian names releases after characters in the movie "Toy Story" (Sarge, Etch, Lenny). Fedora's method is a bit more obscure, but no less clever.

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