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Fedora 21 Linux Will Be Nameless

Posted by samzenpus on from the john-doe dept.

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."

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  1. Good! by inflamed · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

    1. Re:Good! by sconeu · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  2. Obvious by tempest69 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  3. Re:Naming releases by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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"?

  4. Longer cycles and tick/tock please by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  5. Enough with the stupid names! by RuffMasterD · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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...

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  6. Nothing to see here. by Max+Threshold · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  7. Re:Simple enough by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 4, Funny

    Then 22 should be called A Fistful of Fedoras.