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[James Mason <bear454@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> James Mason wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > James Mason wrote:
> > >
> > > > Internally, I'd like to just make the codenames more obvious.  How
> > > > many people know the current release (officially 11.4) is codenamed
> > > > 'Celadon' ?
> > >
> > > Not many (until they install it).
> > >
> > > > The long history of using green shades/objects is neutral and
> > > > unique.
> > >
> > > Even if not always language-neutral.  (lysegrøn is a shade of green
> > > in my mothertongue).
> >
> > I'd be fine with openSUSE lysegrøn :)
>
> :-)
>
> > Along that concept, I could tell you off the top of my head that
> > Debian's last current release is Etch, but I'd have to google to tell
> > you that's 6.0.0.
>
> Which might just be a good argument for keeping version numbering.  To a
> non-native English speaker "Etch" is perhap at best a part
> of "Etch-a-Sketch", an 80s childs toy.

On the money - Debian codenames after characters from Pixar's Toy
Story: Woody, Sarge, Etch, etc... so yes, it *is* named for the
Etch-a-Sketch ;)

> Numbers are language-neutral
> (for anyone using arabic numerals at least :-).
> I know I've just installed 11.4, but I have no idea what the codename
> for 11.3 was.

11.s is codenamed "Teal"

- James Mason 'bear454'


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