[ILUG] Debian unstable: (WAS: Off-topic: students' hostel)

[Gavin McCullagh]

happened to notice this on debian site...

http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-ftparchives.html

5.6 Where do these codenames come from?

So far they have been characters taken from the movie "Toy Story" by
Pixar.

* buzz (Buzz Lightyear) was the spaceman,		1.1
* rex was the tyrannosaurus,				1.2
* bo (Bo Peep) was the girl who took care of the sheep,	1.3.x
* hamm was the piggy bank,				2.0
* slink (Slinky Dog) was the toy dog,			2.1
* potato was, of course, Mr. Potato,			2.2
* woody was the cowboy.					3.0(?)


On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Liam Bedford wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 02:25:04AM +0200, Michael Thalmann came forth with:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > first I'd like to thank you all for your information you sent
> > me. I didn't expect to get so much helpful support! 
> > 
> don't worry, you'll get lots more in the pubs in Dublin..
> 
> > > I am using Linux for some time and I am very happy with my
> > > Woody. 
> > As you now probably all know, I am not a native english
> > speaker and nobody told me what "woody" also means (until 
> > now :-)
> > Yet I know it, and thank you for that hint! ;-)
> > 
> > Just to explain what I meant:
> > I am very happy with my Laptop, running Debian unstable (the
> > upcoming version 3.0) called "Woody". For more information
> > please refer to http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/index
> woody is great, but it's unfortunately not unstable <g>
> 
> sid is also very good for an ostensibly unstable OS.
> I'm running it on two machines, and have yet to install it on my alpha.
> 
> > But why have the debian developer tooken such a dangerous name
> > for a Linuxdistribution???
> > 
> as others mentioned, it comes from Toy Story, and obviously doesn't have too
> many bad connotations (sp?) in the US...
> 
> L.
> -- 
>      dBP   dBBBBb | If you're looking at me to be an accountant
>               dBP | Then you will look but you will never see
>    dBP    dBBBK'  | If you're looking at me to start having babies
>   dBP    dB' db   | Then you can wish because I'm not here to fool around
>  dBBBBP dBBBBP'   | Belle & Sebastian (Family Tree)
> 
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