I really like these kinds of names with a coherent theme. I think the most widely known ones are the Mac OS X large cat / geographic place names and the Intel lakes / coves. Are there any more from popular tech companies?
* Golf - Gulf Stream,
* Jetta - Jet Stream,
* Passat - Trade wind,
* Polo - Polar winds,
* Scirocco - Mediterranean/Saharan wind.
Maybe someone digs up a German source? Would be a cool addition to the Polo's Wikipedia articles. (The German Wikipedia says it's after sport not after the polar wind, but it's entirely unsourced.)
My apologies!
> So, what's with the "Funky Fairy" naming system? Many sensible people have wondered why we chose this naming scheme. It came about as a joke on a ferry between Circular Quay and somewhere else, in Sydney, Australia:
> lifeless: how long before we make a first release?
> sabdfl: it would need to be punchy. six months max.
> lifeless: six months! thats not a lot of time for polish.
> sabdfl: so we'll have to nickname it the warty warthog release.
> And voila, the name stuck.
(First Ubuntu release was "Ubuntu 4.10 - Warty Warthog")
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/History_of_Red_Hat_Linux
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/releases/name_history/
(Vouched for parent comment since it was on-topic.)
For instance, consider BMW.
For sedans/hatchbacks there's basically 1 through 8 (1 series, 2 series etc). Even numbered series tend to be high performance models and are usually coupes.
Prefix "X" means it's an SUV.
Prefix "I" means it's electric.
The suffix "i" stands for petrol engine, "d" for diesel, "e" for plugin hybrids (?).
The other numbers indicate the relative performance of the engine (ie., 530 > 525)
"x-drive" means AWD.
An "M" in there means high performance. If there's "competition" tacked on, there's even more performance, and "CS" means it's really badass.
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BMW is not the only one with a coherent naming though. Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Volvo etc (just naming a few) also have similar naming strategies.
Another fun thematic one from that era was Adobe's Flex platform, which had two separately codenamed parts: an SDK and an IDE. One release cycle both codenames were food related: Burrito and Hero (like the sandwich). So the follow-on minor release of course used the codenames Super Burrito and Superhero. The overall platform got the codename Superstar (i.e. "Super *"). And then I think the next release after that became "Megastar." As far as I know none of that was planned in advance, much like the story above.
AMD used to use horse breed names for various Athlon XP models.
Linux Mint is unfortunately named with female names. It’s creepy because leadership is mostly male, and because, by design, people are expected to move on to the next new “release”.