Fedora 9 codename...

[Todd Denniston]

seth vidal wrote, On 01/28/2008 05:05 PM:
> On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 22:02 +0000, José Matos wrote:
>> On Monday 28 January 2008 21:09:59 seth vidal wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 23:05 +0200, Riku Seppälä wrote:
>>>> I just read from the Fedora weekly news that the codename for Fedora 9
>>>> is Sulphur.
>>>> Sulphur is "rikki" in Finnish. Rikki also means "broken" in Finnish. :)
>>>> Well it's not really that funny but just thought I'd mention it.
>>> yah, we've been through this before, it seems to be linguistically
>>> impossible to find any single word in any language which does not sound
>>> like or translate to some sort of pejorative in some other language.
>>>
>>> so we persevere :)
>>   FWIW fedor (that sounds almost like fedora) in Portuguese means "really bad 
>> smell" so we don't even need to wait for release names. :-)
> 
> We've known that one for a long time. It may have even been you who
> mentioned it. I gave up caring about various interpretations in all
> languages a long time ago. Hell, if a name like "blows chunks with
> gusto" happened for our F13 release, that'd be fine.
> 
> 
> -sv
> 
> 

OK, Quick someone start setting up the voting booths for F13 codename, we 
already have a candidate. :)

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Todd Denniston
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