Proposal request for ideas on naming Fedora releases.

[Tim]

On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 13:34 +0200, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> giving a name to the particular release of a distro has a 
> social/emotional character, like giving a name to a newborn child. It
> is only natural that developers are emotionally attached to their
> latest "creation", and want to give it a name, a form of personal
> touch.

Likewise for the naming of other things, such as naming computers on the
network.  I would put a bit of thought into mine, rather than just
calling it "server."  Windows machines tended to be given hateful names
from mythology.  ;-)  e.g. We called a mail server Pandora, after
Pandora's Box, where all the evil in the world supposedly came from.  It
seemed appropriate at the time, and still does.  And I sent one PC back
to its owner, who was forever killing it, named Lazarus.
> 
> As for criticizing the idea, they should first think if they 
> would be willing to name their newborn son as
> "Child-25/07/2012-male", 

I am not a number...                                   ;-)




(That'll probably go right over the heads of many list members.)



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