Cast your vote for the Fedora 10 Codename!

[Andrew Farris]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 00:02 +0100, Tim Jackson wrote:
>> Nothing at all; each to their own. But it wouldn't be the first time I've 
>> had to explain to a new user who is already dubious about Fedora and 
>> suspicious that this Linux thing is some sort of cryptic geeky nonsense 
>> why there is a weird obscure name used interchangeably with the more 
>> recognisable and user-understandable one. The name by which you distribute 
>> a piece of software may be completely unrelated to its merits from the 
>> point of view of you or I, but it *is* on the front line of users' 
>> awareness of it, and I'd rather Fedora had a reputation for welcoming and 
>> encouraging new users, not confusing them :-)
> 
> Right, because "Windows ME", "Windows 98", "Windows 2000", "Windows XP",
> "Windows Vista" are instantly understandable and not cryptic at all.  Or
> if you prefer "Leapord", "Panther", etc...

Particularly when Windows Vista was known to the world as 'Longhorn' for more 
than 3 years before the term 'Vista' ever showed up.  I'm not aware of any 
'popular' operating system that has no codenaming process at all... I'd be 
interested in knowing about it.

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