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The Many Names of Linux Kernels

Posted by timothy on from the because-programmers-like-words dept.

dartttt writes "Not many people know that Kernel releases have their codenames. Most of the Linux 2.6 and 3.x kernels include a name in the Makefile of their source trees, which can be found in the git repository. They are not publicized as such but some of them are really hilarious."

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  1. Holy Dancing Manatees, Batman! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_kernel_names is the link worth going to if you want to find out what they are.

    1. Re:Holy Dancing Manatees, Batman! by Tsingi · · Score: 5, Funny

      All pale in comparison to "Pink Farting Weasle"

    2. Re:Holy Dancing Manatees, Batman! by BetterThanCaesar · · Score: 5, Informative

      That's not a link. That's a URL. This is a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_kernel_names

      --
      "Stop failing the Turing test!" -- Dilbert
    3. Re:Holy Dancing Manatees, Batman! by alex67500 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Judging by your encoding issues, you're using one of their products right now aren't you?

    4. Re:Holy Dancing Manatees, Batman! by Mike610544 · · Score: 3, Funny

      That's not a link that's a spoon.

      I can see you've played linky spoony before!

      --
      ... also, I can kill you with my brain.
  2. 2.6.20 by SJHillman · · Score: 5, Funny

    I used to own numerous 2.6.20's (they bred a lot) and I currently have a 2.6.21. I was also attacked by a 2.6.28-rc1 once, although it could have been a 2.6.36.

  3. Ubuntu Inspiration by Machtyn · · Score: 3, Funny

    So, is this where ubuntu gets its inspiration for its names?

  4. Re:Damn Weasels by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Someone please ask the pink weasels to stop farting. Actually, to be politically correct, just ask all the weasels to stop farting. No need to single out the pink ones.

    And to that, weasels are just people who fart on airplanes and look around at their neighbor to seemingly accuse them of having let it go. I didn't do it!!

    The Duchess emitted an enormous fart. Thinking to shift the blame, she told the butler "Stop that immediately."
    He replied "Which way did it go."

  5. git log -p Makefile | grep "^ NAME = " | uniq -d by alanw · · Score: 5, Informative


      NAME = "Divemaster Edition"
      NAME = Sneaky Weasel
      NAME = Flesh-Eating Bats with Fangs
      NAME = Sheep on Meth
      NAME = Man-Eating Seals of Antiquity
      NAME = Vindictive Armadillo
      NAME = Temporary Tasmanian Devil
      NAME = Erotic Pickled Herring
      NAME = Killer Bat of Doom
      NAME = Rotary Wombat
      NAME = Funky Weasel is Jiggy wit it
      NAME = Arr Matey! A Hairy Bilge Rat!
      NAME = Pink Farting Weasel
      NAME = Holy Dancing Manatees, Batman!
      NAME = Nocturnal Monster Puppy
      NAME = Homicidal Dwarf Hamster

  6. Re:So how can I discover a kernel's codename? by jgrahn · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This isn't a totally trivial question. I've often seen comments in forums saying that something works in kernels from the Frosty Ferret release to the Manifest Monkey release.

    I think you can safely ignore anyone who refers to kernels by their silly-names. People who want to be understood uses whatever number uname -a says.