Fedora 21 Linux Will Be Nameless

darthcamaro writes "What follows in the footsteps of Heisenbug, Spherical Cow and Beefy Miracle? Apparently the answer is 'null' as is nothing. Fedora Linux 21 could well have no funky new name as its past predecessors have all had, thanks to a recent vote by the Fedora board to move away from the existing naming practices. Fedora 21 itself will not be out in the first half of 2014 either, instead the plan is now for a release sometime around August. A delayed release however doesn't mean something is wrong as Red Hat's community Linux distro aims to re-invent itself."

Comments

Good!

[inflamed]

The use of both naming and version numbers to differentiate distribution versions makes searching for bug workarounds harder.

Re:Good!

[sconeu]

Is Schroedinger's Umlaut there or not there until you look at /etc/issue?

Obvious

[tempest69]

Fedora 21 (Black Jack)
I'm calling it that, and I dont care if Fedora leaves it nameless.

Naming releases

[similar_name]

I used to not care for naming releases. Just give me version numbers. However, I've changed my mind. Now I find it more fruitful to search for issues with a particular version by name rather than by number.

Re:Naming releases

[Anonymous Coward]

However, I've changed my mind. Now I find it more fruitful to search for issues with a particular version by name rather than by number

Yes, but what do you do if you need to figure out the software requirements?
Quick, does "at least mountain lion" include "leopard"? How about "at least Cheetah version, but no later than Crouching Striped Tiger"?

Longer cycles and tick/tock please

[Sponge Bath]

I gave up on Fedora after 14. It is too much of a bleeding edge perpetual beta and moving target. Please make it a one year new feature release with a 6 month stabilization release. I realize RHEL is the production distribution, and the derivative CentOS 6.x is my favorite distribution by far. A testing distribution like Fedora won't get as wide of testing if it is as unstable as it was when I gave up.

The problem with only numbers (uniqueness rocks)

[John Allsup]

When searching for information relavent to a release, say Debian 7, putting 'debian 7' into Google is useless, since Google can't infer the meaning of a number 7 in a document.  Searching for 'debian wheezy', however, is far more specific, since 'wheezy' isn't used where the number 7 might be (for example 'bug with proglet 7 on debian 3' might match pages talking about bugs with proglet running on debian 7 where the error code is 3).  If they don't have a codename, at least attach a unique memorable short string to each release so that it can be easily searched for.

Re:The problem with only numbers (uniqueness rocks

[wiredlogic]

Except that Google can infer from context that your search is related to Debian 7 and not Debian 6 or Debian 8.

Enough with the stupid names!

[RuffMasterD]

Thank you Fedora, for dropping the stupid names already. Code name my distro Humping Hippo for all I care, but don't put it into the final product. I shouldn't have to search the Internet every time I need to translate between release number and codename. Sure, I can run 'lsb_release -r' or whatever command on my own system, but what about every other system out there? Ubuntu, your move...

Re:The problem with only numbers (uniqueness rocks

[TuxThePenguin2205]

though putting "debian 7" (including the quotes) gets much better answers ;-)

Nothing to see here.

[Max Threshold]

They "reinvent" themselves every few years... basically whenever they start attracting too many users.

no name?

[Gravis Zero]

so i guess we have to call it The Release Formerly Known As Fedora 21.

Re:Simple enough

[Chris Mattern]

Then 22 should be called A Fistful of Fedoras.

Finally

[hduff]

RedHat admits that it cannot come up with dumber names than Canonical.