Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Well, Linus seems to like Lordi... | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Date | Thu, 25 May 2006 12:02:12 -0400 |
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On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 08:46 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 25 May 2006, Kyle McMartin wrote: > > > > If we're going to have release code names for the kernel, might as well > > advertise them somewhere. :) > > Well, part of the charm of the name is that it's totally meaningless. I > can pick names out of my *ss, and they don't matter in the least, and > nobody will ever see it except in the kernel diffs. > > (As to Lordi, I've only ever seen their Eurovision thing on Youtube, > because those pesky US networks thinks we're interested in some kind of > inferior "American Idol" copycat product. But unless you've lived in > Finland during the 80s and 90s, you just simply cannot appreciate the > "Whaaa?" factor of having Finland win the dang thing. Imagine a whole > _country_ going "Whaaa? What the f?" at the same time..). >
Hmm, considering how big he is in Finland, maybe the 2.6.18 release should be code name "Conan" ;)
-- Steve
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