Re: CHAT: Debian

Christophe Grandsire writes:
 > En réponse à "Douglas Koller, Latin & French" <latinfrench@...>:
 >
 > > >
 > > >2.2 Potato was right in the middle of the Great Debian Doldrums
 > >
 > > I gave up a long time ago even considering thinking about feigning to
 > > pretend to understand what this thread was about, but does this mean
 > > that 2.2 was the Danish of Debian (à la "Danish is Swedish with a hot
 > > potato in your mouth"...har, har)?
 > >
 >
 > Hehe, it's just that Debian 2.2 was called "Potato" (just like the last
 > version, 3.0, is called "Woody"). But maybe your comment is not that far off
 > from what happened ;))) .

The names of Debian major version releases make mare sense when you
realize that they are taken from characters in the Disney film _Toy
Story_.  Note that (since the introduction of the "testing" version)
the unstable version is now always named _sid_, both because it can
stand for "still in development" and because that character was rather
unstable (at least, I infer that these are the reasons for that
choice).