Fedora 21 Linux Will Be Nameless

darthcamaro writes "What follows in the footsteps of Heisenbug, Spherical Cow and Beefy Miracle? Apparently the answer is 'null' as is nothing. Fedora Linux 21 could well have no funky new name as its past predecessors have all had, thanks to a recent vote by the Fedora board to move away from the existing naming practices. Fedora 21 itself will not be out in the first half of 2014 either, instead the plan is now for a release sometime around August. A delayed release however doesn't mean something is wrong as Red Hat's community Linux distro aims to re-invent itself."

Good!

[inflamed]

The use of both naming and version numbers to differentiate distribution versions makes searching for bug workarounds harder.

Naming releases

[similar_name]

I used to not care for naming releases. Just give me version numbers. However, I've changed my mind. Now I find it more fruitful to search for issues with a particular version by name rather than by number.

Re:Naming releases

[Anonymous Coward]

However, I've changed my mind. Now I find it more fruitful to search for issues with a particular version by name rather than by number

Yes, but what do you do if you need to figure out the software requirements?
Quick, does "at least mountain lion" include "leopard"? How about "at least Cheetah version, but no later than Crouching Striped Tiger"?

The problem with only numbers (uniqueness rocks)

[John Allsup]

When searching for information relavent to a release, say Debian 7, putting 'debian 7' into Google is useless, since Google can't infer the meaning of a number 7 in a document.  Searching for 'debian wheezy', however, is far more specific, since 'wheezy' isn't used where the number 7 might be (for example 'bug with proglet 7 on debian 3' might match pages talking about bugs with proglet running on debian 7 where the error code is 3).  If they don't have a codename, at least attach a unique memorable short string to each release so that it can be easily searched for.

Enough with the stupid names!

[RuffMasterD]

Thank you Fedora, for dropping the stupid names already. Code name my distro Humping Hippo for all I care, but don't put it into the final product. I shouldn't have to search the Internet every time I need to translate between release number and codename. Sure, I can run 'lsb_release -r' or whatever command on my own system, but what about every other system out there? Ubuntu, your move...

Re:Good!

[Anonymous Coward]

Then you should use names. Google is terrible at finding something by version number. For some reason it often seems to think any number is a sufficient hit.