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.

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Similarly, VLC names their releases after Discworld characters. It’s a fun way to make major versions feel like more than just a number increment.

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The Vorbis audio codec was also named after Vorbis from Small Gods, the 13th Discworld book.

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That’s contested but still very cool (and the people who disagree are wrong)

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The Xiph.org foundation themselves say that’s where the name came from.

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I love that Theora is called that after the controller in Max Headroom played by Amanda Pays.

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Does that make Ogg Vorbis some kind of twisted shipping?

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Ogg was apparently not named after Nanny Ogg, no matter how awesome that’d be.

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For anyone else who was wondering, it’s major releases only, and so far it’s been:

  • The Luggage
  • Twoflower
  • Rincewind
  • Weatherwax
  • Vetinari

Not sure Havelock would look kindly at being left til 5th, but you can’t please everyone.

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Huh TIL! That’s cool

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Came to say this, I remember when I first looked at VLC version and saw Rincewind (I think it was), and was like “this has to be a Discworld reference”

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