On 2021-09-01 at 11:30, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, September 01, 2021 10:38:22 AM Andrew M.A. Cater > wrote: > >> The end result was that Debian jumped straight to 1.1 and a new >> thing - a codename (Buzz) because the then DPL (Bruce Perens) >> worked for Pixar. > > Just out of curiosity, I'm missing the significance of the then DPL > (Bruce Perens) working for Pixar -- would something different have > happened if he worked somewhere else? Or ?
Unless I'm greatly mistaken, the significance is that the Pixar connection is why "buzz" was the codename that was chosen - and why every single Debian release codename since then has also been the name of a character from the Toy Story series. I think this might have been slightly clearer if the grouping etc. punctuation had been different. The best I've come up with on short notice is something more like: >>> The end result was that Debian jumped straight to 1.1 and a new >>> thing: a codename (Buzz, because the then DPL - Bruce Perens - >>> worked for Pixar). That's probably not enough of an improvement in clarity etc. to justify the energy and attention *I*'ve spent on it, however, never mind the same from Andrew. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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