2006/10/24, Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>:

Markus McLaughlin (markmc34@verizon.net) said:
> This is definitely an exciting day for us Fedora Fans/Users/Programmers!
> I am downloading the MAC-PPC edition of FC6 all day today on my day off
> from work.  I love the name ZOD, very cool, and a nice reference to
> General
> Zod of Superman lore.  Now here are names that I hope will be considered
> for the upcoming releases.  Star Trek turned 40 this year so I
> propose the
> name for Fedora Core 7 to be Spock.  I will write to startrek.com and
> trektoday.com and the Trek BBS if that is okay to be used since it
> won't be
> a name that can be sold.  Along with the Spock name, I want to encourage
> programmers who know how to create themes to create an "LCARS" theme
> that looks a lot like a computer display on board the Enterprise-D as
> shown
> in ST-TNG complete with animated icons and/or panels.
>
> Here are names I hope will be considered for FC8 through FC10.
> Athena, a
> Greek Goddess, would make an appealing name for FC8.  FC9 should be
> named either Brando, Kurtz, Vito, Jules, Vega, Tarantino, Starbuck,
> Baltar,
> Pryor, Kennedy, or Boston.
>
> In honor of Linus Torvalds' work on the Linux kernel, Fedora Core 10
> will
> be known as "Hattu," which is Finnish for Hat.  It will also honor my
> Finnish
> roots as well, half of my ancestors/family comes from Finland so I
> insist
> on this name as well.   The other half being Irish American, my
> ancestors
> came from Ireland.

That's not really how the naming works; there are links between
each set of names...

Bill

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