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The codenames for every major Debian release are named after characters from Pixar's Toy Story franchise. Debian's unstable release is fittingly named after Sid, an unstable character from the Toy Story movies.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

unfortunately there's no rhyme or reason to the naming. which came first: bookworm, buster, or bullseye? They should just use numbers.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Still better than Ubuntu's Horny Herring naming scheme.

[–] embed_me 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

But to its credit its alphabetical

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

And memorable!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

And has been for so long, they already went through it once

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