FC7 through FC10 Name Proposals

SmootherFrOgZ lxtnow at gmail.com
Wed Oct 25 11:16:05 UTC 2006


What kind of link ?

I would like to know...






2006/10/24, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com>:
>
> Markus McLaughlin (markmc34 at verizon.net) said:
> > This is definitely an exciting day for us Fedora Fans/Users/Programmers!
> > I am downloading the MAC-PPC edition of FC6 all day today on my day off
> > from work.  I love the name ZOD, very cool, and a nice reference to
> > General
> > Zod of Superman lore.  Now here are names that I hope will be considered
> > for the upcoming releases.  Star Trek turned 40 this year so I
> > propose the
> > name for Fedora Core 7 to be Spock.  I will write to startrek.com and
> > trektoday.com and the Trek BBS if that is okay to be used since it
> > won't be
> > a name that can be sold.  Along with the Spock name, I want to encourage
> > programmers who know how to create themes to create an "LCARS" theme
> > that looks a lot like a computer display on board the Enterprise-D as
> > shown
> > in ST-TNG complete with animated icons and/or panels.
> >
> > Here are names I hope will be considered for FC8 through FC10.
> > Athena, a
> > Greek Goddess, would make an appealing name for FC8.  FC9 should be
> > named either Brando, Kurtz, Vito, Jules, Vega, Tarantino, Starbuck,
> > Baltar,
> > Pryor, Kennedy, or Boston.
> >
> > In honor of Linus Torvalds' work on the Linux kernel, Fedora Core 10
> > will
> > be known as "Hattu," which is Finnish for Hat.  It will also honor my
> > Finnish
> > roots as well, half of my ancestors/family comes from Finland so I
> > insist
> > on this name as well.   The other half being Irish American, my
> > ancestors
> > came from Ireland.
>
> That's not really how the naming works; there are links between
> each set of names...
>
> Bill
>
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