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What's Debian going to name their releases after when they run out of Toy Story characters? (piefed.social)
submitted 2 months ago by PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social to c/linux@programming.dev
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I mean, there's only so many, right? At some point they're gonna run out.

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[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 81 points 2 months ago (2 children)

With Debian's pace they got enough characters to last at least 3,000 years easy. Thats why they're here, to be the rocks we need in our racks.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thats why they’re here, to be the rocks we need in our racks.

I dunno what kind of busty servers you're running, but I'm intrigued.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I may have a threadripper I got in a trade (PSU is currently dead on it tho)

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I may have a threadripper I got in a trade

still not beating the big boobs parallels.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

She host modded Minecraft real gud tho

[–] agentTeiko@piefed.social 46 points 2 months ago

Well we haven't even run out of toy story movies yet.

[–] kpax@piefed.social 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I was today years old when I found out the Debian Release names were Toy Story characters. Thanks. 😁

[–] Eric@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ian Murdock, Debian's creator, was working for Pixar when he made it

[–] Slashme@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Debian Project Leader Bruce Perens worked at Pixar in the mid-1990s, not Ian.

[–] Eric@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the correction

[–] cornshark@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Cuthbert's Law strikes again!

[–] null@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago

My fav is that Sid is named after the kid who blows up toys and puts them back together. The best name for an unstable release :-D

[–] kbal@fedia.io 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A quick grep | wc of the Wikipedia list of Toy Story characters suggests that they'll run out somewhere around the year 2120 if no new Toy Story movies are made. Perhaps Debian should start getting its movie studio department working on a new one before then, just in case.

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Toy Story 5 comes out this summer....... So, yeah

[–] lengau@midwest.social 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Toy Story 2 characters

[–] SteveTech@aussie.zone 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Forky is from Toy Story 4, but I'm sure there's still more original Toy Story characters to use, let alone more movies to come.

[–] eighty@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Save that name for a primary fork/different project - it's too good

[–] UntimedDiffusion@piefed.zip 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Too late. Forky is already the name for Debian 14

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

forkteen

[–] eighty@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Tragic

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Disney will surely milk the Toy Story franchise with many movies and shows, and with the pace of Debian's release cycle, it will be ages until the roster of characters is used up. If Toy Story characters do run out somehow, or if the Debian developers ever get bored of it I guess, they could branch out to other franchises, like Star Wars or something.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Plinkett : It was then they moved onto OTHER star wars characters, like Dexter Jettster... and Oobut Boontu.

[–] tirateimas@lemmy.pt 13 points 2 months ago

Asking the important questions

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

MacOS ran out of cats at some point. Android ran out of desserts.

Ubuntu had no problem rolling over with the letters of the alphabet, but I imagine some letters may pose issues at some point when you run out of identifiable animals that start with that letter. Although they were already going with a lot of obscure animals to begin with.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Android ran out of desserts.

The buffet table I eat at has the same problem on occasion.

Go full Ubuntu ? next release Transcendental Toad

[–] olympicyes@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Toxoplasmic Tabby.

[–] tio_bira@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Android wasn't only desserts, was alphabetic order desserts.

I still remember when i start and was Cinnamon then I updated my phone to Donut, but Jellybean was the most persistent one, it stays for a while

[–] chelly__1@lemmychan.org 10 points 2 months ago

Who knows? Now might be a good time to speculate about it.

What about Shrek characters?

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 months ago

I don't think they'll have any difficulty convincing Disney to put out another installment.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 8 points 2 months ago

Small Soldiers.

[–] BlindFrog@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Toy story 5 might add enough characters to subsist on for a while

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Voice actors

[–] Sickday@kbin.earth 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

can't wait for Debian 56 - "Tim Allen" AEUGH??

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Oh man, the AEUGH?? killed me lol