Nowadays Fedora Linux just uses numbered releases but there was a time where instead they used really bizarre release names instead before eventually ending ...
The name-connected-to-the-previous rule came from Red Hat Linux (not RHEL) before Fedora. When it was "Fedora Core", the engineering (and naming) was all RH internal, with no community input or transparency. (Like RHEL before CentOS Stream.) Some history here:
Scotty Trees
in reply to Brodie Robertson • • •Matthew Miller
in reply to Brodie Robertson • • •The name-connected-to-the-previous rule came from Red Hat Linux (not RHEL) before Fedora. When it was "Fedora Core", the engineering (and naming) was all RH internal, with no community input or transparency. (Like RHEL before CentOS Stream.) Some history here:
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Stephen J SmoogenOmar Kotb :fedora:
in reply to Brodie Robertson • • •Was the Beefy Miracle release special or something? I found this when I looked it up!
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beefymiracle.orgNeal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ)
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I miss codenames for @fedora releases...
Brodie Robertson
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