What an incredible naming scheme! Kudos to RH for coming up with that, at
the very least ;)
--j.
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Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 07:25:47 -0700
From: Matt Nelson <mnelson at dynatec.com>
To: seawolf-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: Why's it called 'seawolf'?
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Wayne Dyer wrote:
> Matt Nelson wrote:
> > one possible connection: Wolverine and Seawolf are both names of US Navy
> > warships (or subs? i forget...)
>> But there has always been a connection with the previous full
> release, too. So, the question isn't so much Wolverine -> Seawolf, but
> Guinness -> Seawolf.
> A possibility: The Seawolf submarine was launched in 1955, the same year
> as the first Guinness Book of World Records.
ok, just for fun i'll post my stab at tracking the name game, starting at
the beginning (fwiw, i jumped on the Red Hat bandwagon with Picasso):
Preview (or Beta) (Summer 94)
Halloween (Fall 94)
Mother's Day 1.0 (Summer 95)
Mother's Day 1.1 (Late Summer 95)
2.0 beta (Late Late Summer 95)
2.0 (Early Fall 95)
2.1 (Late Fall 95)
3.0.3 (March 96) Picasso painter
3.0.4 (Aug 96) Rembrandt painter, toothpaste
3.0.4 (Aug 96) Rembrandt II painter, toothpaste
4.0 (Oct 96) Colgate toothpaste, college
4.1 (Jan 97) Vanderbilt college, millionaire
4.2 (May 97) Biltmore millionaire, ?
4.3 - 4.7 internal glibc betas ? ?, ?
4.8 (Aug 97) Thunderbird (wine?), car
4.9.1 (Oct 97) Mustang car, fighter plane
5.0 (Dec 97) Hurricane fighter plane, libation
5.1 (Jun 98) Manhattan libation, theater?
5.2 (2 Nov 98) Apollo theater, Battlestar
Galactica character
RawHide(test/dev) (14 Aug 98) (BlueSky - internal placeholder
name, not part of name scheme)
5.9 (17 Mar 99) Starbuck Battlestar Galactica
character, Broadway
character (110 in
the shade)
6.0 (26 Apr 99) Hedwig Broadway character
(Hedwig and the
angry inch), ?
6.1 beta (6 Sep 99) Lorax
6.1 (11 Oct 99) Cartman ?, cartoon char
(South Park)
6.1.92 (6.2 beta) (9 Feb 00) Piglet cartoon char (Winnie
the Pooh), Monty Python
Holy Grail char
(Zoot's sister)
6.2 (27 Mar 00) Zoot MPHG char, suit
6.9.5 (7.0 beta) (31 July 00) Pinstripe suit, porter
(Carnegie hill
brewing co.)
7.0 (25 Sep 00) Guinness stout, Star Wars actor
7.0.90 (beta) (31 Jan 01) Fisher SW actor, N.A. mammal
7.0.91 (beta) (22 Feb 01) Wolverine N.A. mammal, war ship?
7.1 (16 Apr 01) Seawolf war ship?,
-matt
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