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Fedora Linux History Of Bizarre Release Names

Nowadays Fedora Linux just uses numbered releases but there was a time where instead they used really bizarre release names instead before eventually ending ...
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Scotty Trees
Scotty Trees
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ah I’ll always click anything with Fedora in the title 😅
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Matthew Miller
Matthew Miller
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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:

https://www.smoogespace.com/documents/behind_the_names.html

SmoogeSpace Website

Red Hat Linux naming convention
Stephen J Smoogen
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Brodie Robertson
Brodie Robertson
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@mairin @Conan_Kudo @mattdm @fedora Naming minus the giant nightmare of community suggestions
@Fedora Project @Matthew Miller @Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora:

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