The codenames for every major Debian release are named after characters from Pixar’s Toy Story franchise. Debian’s unstable release is fittingly named after Sid, an unstable character from the Toy Story movies.
Unstable branch is always Sid, 'cause he’s so unstable. They just changed experimental to rc-buggy.
I know you named Sid, but it’s a rolling release so it never gets a new name.
How many years until they run out of characters?
Plenty, as well as the upcoming release of Toy Story 5.
And if they ever run out of Toy Story characters, the Marvel universe has thousands of other characters…
Not to mention other Pixar film characters.
That’s what I thought. I think the most popular name they have actually used is Jessie.
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1053/
The unstable is named Sid, after the kid next door who liked to blow up toys.
They should’ve moved to mountains a while ago, before Apple did it. After all a distro as stable as Debian is the only one deserving rock solid stuff.
R releases all have code names that are Peanuts references, like “Bunny Wunnies Freak Out”.
Obviously a matter of taste and not trying to insult anyone but I never saw the appeal of the Toy Story movies and, adding the Steve Jobs link to Pixar, this is the ONE thing I never liked about Debian
Other than that I used it for YEARS with no issues whatsoever. Debian is honestly rock solid. I only gave it up when I built a bleeding edge machine (it was bleeding edge for a whole 2 months maybe? hehehe) and I did not trust myself modding it enough to allow for super fresh drivers and other software.
I am now on Garuda Linux which is pretty awesome but I still miss good, solid, old Debian
