Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 3 May 1996 20:07:21 +0100 (BST) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: Whee, Greased HedgeHog on Steroids, take 2 |
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On 2 May 1996, Andreas Koppenhoefer wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > In article <31865F8F.229683A3@cnt.com> "Andrew C. Esh" <andrewes@cnt.com> > writes: > [...] > I decided to devise a one-to-one conversion table for version digits. > This will save me the trouble of guessing which version this "Greased > HedgeHog" nomenclature is referring to. > > Informal names will be made up of an adjective, a small animal, > A verb which is being performed by the small animal, and a substance > or object being operated on by the verb. The specific words are > determined my the digit of the version number. > > Kernel 1.1.18 was a Greased GroundHog selling Mountain Dew. > Kernel 1.3.95 is a Greased HedgeHog on Steroids. > Kernel 2.0.(0)0 will be a TurboCharged Chicken doing LSD. > > If you'd like, I could write a PERL script which will scan the Makefile > of your current kernel source code and tell you the proper non-numeric > name for that kernel. > > I think perl is an overkill here and maybe not (yet) available at boot > time. I've hacked a boune shell script to do this. It should even work > at boot time with /usr not yet mounted. > > Maybe Linus want to change some of these names...?
Maybe they sould change depending on where in the devlopmet cycle we are, ie if the major patchlevel is a 'stable' release, we have faster/more efficent sounding ones, and more iffiy (??sp) sounding, especally in the 0 - 35ish set. Bryn~ -- PGP key pass phrase forgotten, \ Overload -- core meltdown sequence again :( | initiated. / This space is intentionally left | blank, apart from this text ;-) \____________________________________
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