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And Debian releases are named for Toy Story characters.

Bruce Perens, a major figure in Debian Linux, worked at Pixar for years. He was my officemate for a while when I was there in the late 90s.

I had the opportunity to visit Pixars office at Emeryville 20 years ago. Loved the garden shed offices!

The espresso milkshakes at Rudy's Can't Fail Cafe--well, the food is fine, but the shakes are glorious.

The only release I knew by name was Woody, but for others curious, here's a page with the releases names listed:

https://www.debian.org/releases/

I love the homages/easter eggs in the *nix world

Wheezy stuck in my mind. Good to finally know how it came to be! Funny that Wheezy is a penguin!

Yeah, Wheezy does sound familiar as well. I ran a Woody server in a co-lo for a personal side hustle, so I was familiar with it. After that, work took me into the RHEL realm with lots of CentOS with much less interesting names like 5, 6, 7.

And Debian itself is a combination of Deb and Ian, Deb being Ian's partner at the time.

Deb broke up with Ian and then Ian had a tragic end. It is a name surrounded by tragedy.

Jeez, I never could draw the connection between those Debian names and Toy Story characters. Till now. Thank you. TIL!

Now we're getting more tangential, but for years, Ansible releases were named for Van Halen songs (see old Changelog here: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v1.8.4/CHANGELOG.md)

And R releases are named after (often obscure) quotes from the comic strip Peanuts (current release "Eggshell Igloo")

Sid, the unstable build, is named for the child antagonist in Toy Story.

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