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.

  • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
    33·
    2 years ago

    Unstable branch is always Sid, 'cause he’s so unstable. They just changed experimental to rc-buggy.

    I know you named Sid, but it’s a rolling release so it never gets a new name.

  • The Zen Cow Says Mu@infosec.pub
    226·
    2 years ago

    unfortunately there’s no rhyme or reason to the naming. which came first: bookworm, buster, or bullseye? They should just use numbers.

    • gencha@lemm.ee
      5·
      2 years ago

      Numbers give the wrong impression that one version follows another. Debian release channels exit alongside each other individually. Giving the release channels names helps to make that distinction. It also makes for an easy layout of packages in APT repositories.

      Sid is and always has been Sid. If you were to assign numbers, what number should replace that name? There are perfectly working labels for release channels and there is no reasonable replacement.

  • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
    172·
    2 years ago

    They should’ve moved to mountains a while ago, before Apple did it. After all a distro as stable as Debian is the only one deserving rock solid stuff.

    • saigot@lemmy.ca
      4·
      2 years ago

      Disney releases new movies with new characters pretty quickly. I don’t think they have even exhausted the first movie yet.

  • Cargon@lemmy.ml
    8·
    2 years ago

    R releases all have code names that are Peanuts references, like “Bunny Wunnies Freak Out”.

    • Psythik@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      I would love nothing more than for a piece of software to be “finished”, like the old days. This is why I don’t play mobile games, cause every time I want to kill five minutes while waiting in a line or something, I first have to download a 1GB+ update that will take an hour to download on my shitty prepaid line.

      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comBannedEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        this is why i’ve been really enjoying games like minecraft and factorio, minecraft updates regularly but the server and instance that i play is still just 1.16.5 so i don’t even have to worry about updating it.

        Similar thing for factorio, although the updates are generally very infrequent, and large updates are massive feature updates. like the upcoming 2.0 expansion, outside of that i just dont really play games much lol.

  • exanime@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    Obviously a matter of taste and not trying to insult anyone but I never saw the appeal of the Toy Story movies and, adding the Steve Jobs link to Pixar, this is the ONE thing I never liked about Debian

    Other than that I used it for YEARS with no issues whatsoever. Debian is honestly rock solid. I only gave it up when I built a bleeding edge machine (it was bleeding edge for a whole 2 months maybe? hehehe) and I did not trust myself modding it enough to allow for super fresh drivers and other software.

    I am now on Garuda Linux which is pretty awesome but I still miss good, solid, old Debian