Proposal request for ideas on naming Fedora releases.

[Carroll Grigsby]

On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 16:48:34 -0700
Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> wrote:

> On 08/11/2012 04:16 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
> > No worries Joe! I feel that we can *all *contribute something to
> > this great project known as Fedora, so even YOUR opinion
> > counts!...As for myself....I'd like to see the names go in a more
> > "Start Trek / Star Wars / Battlestar Galactica" direction
> > myself......but hey....here's to hoping!...
> 
> Actually, I wouldn't think it a bad thing for a release named
> Bernhardt. Why?  Because the very first fedora was designed to be
> part of costume for Sarah Bernhardt in the play Fedora in 1882 and
> started out strictly as a woman's hat.  Later, of course, in the
> 1920s and 30s, it became popular among politicians and gangsters.  I
> doubt very many people would vote for it, but it'd be a neat thing to
> suggest.


I can see the rants already: "Bernhardt gives me heart burn." Hell,
I'll use it myself.

-- cmg (who has a dim memory of Red Hat's Kudzu edition)