RE: Meaning of "Yarrow"

[Shanon Fernald]

Well, the Shrike to Severn tie-in is definitely Hyperion because Severn was the name of one of the characters from the book.

Yarrow seems to be popular with witches: a bit of black magic, maybe!

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On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 08:02:49AM -0800, Shanon Fernald wrote:
> Just curious. This has been bugging me. Wasn't "Shrike" the name of a previous release of redhat? I know that the Shrike is from the great sci-fi novel Hyperion. Now if I'm not mistaken, wasn't there a "Yarrow" tree or something in the book too? Is that the relation between these two release names? Sorry if I am totally off-base here, but in the back of my mind this has been driving me crazy.

Yeah, I'd been looking for a Simmons' tie-in too, but don't have a copy
of Hyperion handy. :-P However, Severn was the beta leading up to Yarrow,
so I'd think the connection needs to be there.

The most promising tie-in I've found so far is a pair of chracters from the
sci-fi comic Transmetropolitan (http://giaever.com/op/transmet/): Charron
Yarrow and Vita Severn. This seems like a pretty good connection, although
not knowing much about the comic, I'm not sure how related the characters
are (if at all).

Meaning of "Yarrow"

[Brad Smith]

> The most promising tie-in I've found so far is a pair of chracters from the
> sci-fi comic Transmetropolitan (http://giaever.com/op/transmet/): Charron
> Yarrow and Vita Severn. This seems like a pretty good connection, although
> not knowing much about the comic, I'm not sure how related the characters
> are (if at all).

Wow, I'm a big fan of both Hyperion and Transmet and it had never
occured to me that Severn could have been a reference to Vita Severn!

And what if the double-meaning was intentional? That means that the
codenames morphed from Hyperion to Transmet (without actually changing
the codename) on the same release where the distro morphed from Red Hat
to Fedora. Somebody tell me if this was intentional and who to award the
geekpoints to if it is. =:)