Re: vocabulary
On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 11:47:19AM -0500, Tomas wrote:
> what do the words potato and woody mean in terms of debian/linux
These are 'codenames' of different versions of distributions. Just like
"Manhattan" in RedHat or "Air" in Mandrake. In Debian codenames come from
"Toy Story" movie - they are names of characters. See
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-ftparchives.html#s-sourceforcodenames
regards
Marcin
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