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The codenames for every major Debian release are named after characters from Pixar's Toy Story franchise. Debian's unstable release is fittingly named after Sid, an unstable character from the Toy Story movies.

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[–] corvus@lemmy.ml 43 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How many years until they run out of characters?

[–] Charger8232@lemmy.ml 52 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Plenty, as well as the upcoming release of Toy Story 5.

[–] jwt@programming.dev 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh they should definitely choose Rocky as name for the next Debian release.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That would probably cause confusion with Rocky Linux when googling.

[–] jwt@programming.dev 12 points 3 months ago

Yes that was the point.

[–] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And if they ever run out of Toy Story characters, the Marvel universe has thousands of other characters...

Not to mention other Pixar film characters.

[–] curry@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

They'll be fine. Remember when we all joked about Covid-19 Omega variant a few years ago?

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 5 points 3 months ago

Especially when you realise main releases happen every five years, or so

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

That's what I thought. I think the most popular name they have actually used is Jessie.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And when will they release 'Hooker'?

[–] corvus@lemmy.ml 25 points 3 months ago