Re: Potato, Woody etc- non- technical
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 10:20:03PM +0800, Aldous B Bernardo wrote:
> Can someone enlighten me what's Potato, Woody, and all those Debian
> codenames? How is Debian versioned? is it with the kernel version?
Debian release names aren't related to the kernel version. Releases
happen pretty much whenever the development team manages to get them
ready.
Official releases are numbered: the last release was 2.2. Before the
release actually happens, the distribution is called by a codename to
avoid confusion between pre-release versions and the release itself.
The codenames come from the film "Toy Story", because a former Debian
Project Leader (Bruce Perens) worked at Pixar. Here's the full list:
buzz Debian 1.1
rex Debian 1.2
bo Debian 1.3
hamm Debian 2.0
slink Debian 2.1
potato Debian 2.2
woody will be Debian 3.0
sid will always be unstable, and the release after woody
will be called something else
You may find this history interesting:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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