Fedora and Red Hat version names

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The Linux distribution Red Hat Linux (RHL) named, like other distributions, the respective versions of the software in addition to the version number with individual code names for each major release. This tradition was continued in the Fedora project up to version 20. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) code names never followed the tradition described here. There place names from the USA are used as code names.

Name connections

As of version 3.0.3 of the Red Hat Linux distribution, the special feature behind these names is the fact that all terms are ambiguous. The second meaning of a term is thematically related to the first meaning of the name of the next version (as far as one can order these meanings).

Names

version         Code name         Release date Remarks
0.8 Preview Summer 1994 Marc Ewing published this version as a demonstration of the Red Hat Linux distribution.
0.9 Halloween Fall 1994 (October 31st) Now Red Hat Linux was almost a product that could be shipped. Due to the connection between the date and the name, special emphasis was placed on releasing this release on October 31st.
1.0 Mother's Day Summer 1995 The first official release.
1.1 Mother's Day Late summer 1995 Bugfix release to iron out the bugs in the first version.
2.0 beta Bluesky? Late late summer 1995 This release used the package management system RPM for the first time . RPM was based on the predecessors RPP, PMS and PM and was written in Perl.
2.0 NoName? Early autumn 1995 RPM officially sees the light of day. One of the strengths of RPM is the ability to use it on different architectures. This allows ports to be created for the Alpha processor and 68k . This fundamental change led to the increase in the first digit.
2.1 NoName? Late autumn 1995 This is the first release that is available for different architectures. Red Hat released the distribution for Intel and Alpha CPUs.
3.0.3 picasso March 1996 Rumor has it that Red Hat named version 3.0.3 because Slackware 3.0 was released at the time. RPM has been rewritten in C . The concatenation of code names now begins. It starts with Picasso , a painter.
3.95 Rembrandt August 1996 Rembrandt was the name of both a painter and a toothpaste .
4.0 Colgate October 1996 Colgate is a well-known toothpaste and the name of a family that sponsored universities in the United States. The reason for the increase in the major number is that this was the first release for three architectures. More were planned in the event of commercial success.
4.1 Vanderbilt January 1997 Vanderbilt is the name of another family that sponsored universities.
4.2 Biltmore April 23, 1997 Biltmore is the Vanderbilts' castle built in the mountains of North Carolina. Likewise, Biltmore is the name of a wine that grows on houses.
4.95 Thunderbird Summer 1997 Thunderbird is another wine that has additional alcohol added. It's not exactly considered a good wine. There was also a Ford Thunderbird automobile. This version was the first official beta test version to get feedback on the changes.
4.96 mustang Fall 1997 The Mustang was both a car and a fighter plane ( North American P-51 ) during World War II.
5.0 Hurricane November 10, 1997 The hurricane is a tropical cyclone. In addition, there was a fighter aircraft with this name during World War II. A cocktail is also named like this. This version represented big changes. RPM has been rewritten from the ground up. Better configuration by users was a primary goal, and Red Hat was one of the first distributions to use the new Glibc 2.0 instead of the old Glibc 1.x (libc 5.2).
5.1 Manhattan May 11, 1998 Manhattan (cocktail) is a cocktail. It is also the name for the Manhattan Project , the aim of which was to develop the atomic bomb and which started the Cold War.
5.2 Apollo October 14, 1998 The Apollo program described the first sign that the Cold War would have to end because the Soviet Union was unable to reach the moon without facing severe economic consequences (another connection between Manhattan and Apollo could be that both were theaters, but the Cold War analogy seemed more appropriate). Apollo was also the name of one of the two main characters in the science fiction television series Battle Star Galactica from the 1970s.
5.9 Starbuck unknown Starbuck is the name of the second main character in Kampfstern Galactica and a musical character from the Broadway classic "Rain Maker".
6.0 Hedwig April 19, 1999 Hedwig is the main character in the musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch . Hedwig is also a Dr. Seuss character. Version 6.0 used Glibc 2.1 and switched from the GNU Compiler Collection to EGCS 1.2. The Linux kernel 2.2 was also used for the first time . All of this made the release incompatible with the previous ones (and the later ones as well, as it turned out).
6.0.95 Lorax unknown Lorax is another Dr. Seuss character. Lorax is also the name of a macro virus for MS-Word.
6.1 Cartman September 27, 1999 Cartman is another macro virus and character from the South Park series.
6.1.95 Piglet Winter 1999 A classic comic book character and a character from the Monty Python film The Knights of the Coconut .
6.2 Zoot Spring 2000 Another figure from Monty Python and the classic zoot suit from the early 20th century.
6.0.98 Pinstripe Summer 2000 Another suit from the 20th century. Pinstripe is also a beer. It's even rumored that Pinstripe appeared in the credits of the movie Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace .
7.0 Guinness August 30, 2000 This edition was named after the Irish Guinness (beer) (rumor has it that this edition was named after Sir Alec Guinness in honor and in honor ). This release brought Glibc 2.2 and a new Gcc (named with version 2.96, which was a forerunner of Gcc 3.0). Libraries and development files were prepared for the Linux kernel 2.4.
7.0.90 Fisher February 1, 2001 This beta version is named after Carrie Fisher , an actress from three Star Wars films. The fisher is also a rare North American mammal that is related to the weasel . This beta contained the Linux 2.4 kernel for better network security and better language support.
7.0.91 Wolverine February 21, 2001 Wolverine is another Wiesel, the German under the name Wolverine known. It is known for its strength and fearlessness. Also, Wolverine also the name of a cartoon character from the Marvel universe , which in the X-Men is located.
7.1 Seawolf April 16, 2001 Seawolf is a college mascot. There is some evidence that Wolverine and Seawolf are related via the names of WWII submarines. In the 1950s, toy submarines of the same name were sold. This edition contained the 2.4 kernel and unique names to distinguish the supplied Gcc from the Red Hat Gcc. A number of new administrative programs were also added.
7.1.92 Roswell July 27, 2001 This beta introduced a new naming scheme. Roswell, New Mexico is a city in United States. A well-known actress from there is Demi Moore . After World War II, Roswell was best known for a UFO incident . There is also a television series of the same name. The changes in these versions were the replacement of LILO with GRUB , XFree86 4.1, which replaced the old version 3.3.6, and the introduction of Ext3 as the default file system .
7.2 Enigma October 22, 2001 Enigma was the name of a German encryption machine during World War II. In general it means something like puzzle. There is also a film of the same name . This edition brought a very stable installer. GNOME used Nautilus, and KDE was included in version 2.2. The Linux kernel was included in a heavily patched version 2.4.7.
7.2.92 Skipjack March 20, 2002 Skipjack is an encryption algorithm. It was originally intended to be used in the Clipper Chip, but it never became a reality. Like Enigma, Skipjack was broken. At first, based on the development status, it looked like this beta would mark the big leap and prepare 8.0. But problems led to these plans being dropped.
7.3 Valhalla May 6, 2002 Valhalla is paradise in Norse mythology. One possible connection between Skipjack and Valhalla is either the fact that they are both island names or that both are a class of sailing ships. Red Hat Linux 7.3 was a very stable version of Red Hat and only required a few updates over the next six months.
7.3.9 [23] limbo July 3, 2002 On the one hand, limbo is the transitional state in the Roman Catholic Church in which believing Christians remain after their death until Jesus is resurrected, see Limbus . But there is also the limbo dance. In this version GCC 3.1 was introduced, as was a previous version of Glibc 2.3, GNOME 2, KDE 3 and OpenOffice.org 1.0. Another important point was the introduction of a kind of Red Hat desktop, a unified look for Gnome and KDE , and a lot of standard applications.
7.3.94 zero August 19, 2002 Zero is the state of oblivion, limbo is the place of oblivion. GCC 3.2 has now been used and the RH desktop has been improved.
8.0 psyche September 30, 2002 With Psyche , the instance is called the people responsible for his behavior, and it is also the name of a butterfly. In Greek mythology you can read about them in Cupid and Psyche . This release didn't mean much. It brought many innovations compared to the 7 branch; Since version 9 appeared a short time later with even more innovations, it was hardly used.
8.0.03 Phoebe Winter 2002 Phoebe is one of the original titans in Greek mythology. Phoebe is also a moon of Saturn ( Phoebe (moon) ). With this release, a new threading library ( concurrency ) was introduced and the desktop made usable even for inexperienced users.
9 Shrike March 31, 2003 Shrike is a bird in England is at home and Germans with strangler is called. Shrike is also one of the characters from the book Hyperion by Dan Simmons. It could also be a link to a story by John Keats , which would then point to Psyche. This version was significantly more downloaded than sold through channels like BitTorrent and as ISO images . Red Hat shortened the support cycle to one year and began to focus on enterprise variants.
9.0.93 Severn July 21, 2003 Severn is the river where many of the shrike birds live. Severn is also another character from the Hyperion book series. This version ushered in a fundamental change. Red Hat converted the project into a community project and maintained an enterprise version based on it. Fedora Core was born.
Fedora Core 1 Yarrow November 5, 2003 There is a river in England called the Yarrow . Yarrow is also the English name for the medicinal plant common yarrow . Fedora Core 1 was the first community release of Red Hat Linux. Fedora Core drives development much faster with shorter development cycles.
Fedora Core 2 Tettnang May 18, 2004 Tettnang is the name of a town in Baden-Württemberg, north of Lake Constance. A hop variety was named after her. For the first time, FC2 brought the Linux kernel 2.6 with the SELinux security extension as standard, as well as the Gnome desktop in version 2.6.
Fedora Core 3 Heidelberg November 8, 2004 Like Tettnang, Heidelberg is a city in Baden-Württemberg. Heidelberg is also a beer brand. The innovations in FC3 include Gnome 2.8 and KDE 3.3.0.
Fedora Core 4 Stentz June 13, 2005 Like the Heidelberg beer brand, the André Stentz winery in Alsace sells alcoholic beverages.
Fedora Core 5 Bordeaux March 20, 2006 Bordeaux is a city in southwest France, a wine-growing region, and a character in the DC universe .
Fedora Core 6 Zod October 24, 2006 General Zod, as an opponent of Superman, is also a character in the DC universe
Fedora 7 Moonshine May 31, 2007 Both Zod and Moonshine are the names of record labels.
Fedora 8 Werewolf November 8, 2007 Both moonlight and werewolves appear when the moon is full.
Fedora 9 Sulfur May 13, 2008 Sulfur (English for sulfur ) was considered a cure in mythology against turning into a werewolf .
Fedora 10 Cambridge November 25, 2008 Cambridge , like Sulfur, is the name of a city in the United States .
Fedora 11 Leonidas May 26, 2009 Like Cambridge, Leonidas was the name of a Union Navy ship.
Fedora 12 Constantine November 17, 2009 Like Leonidas ( "300" ), Constantine is the name of the hero of a new movie.
Fedora 13 Goddard May 25, 2010 Like Konstantin Eduardowitsch Ziolkowski , Robert Hutchings Goddard was also active in the rocket industry.
Fedora 14 Laughlin November 2, 2010 Like Robert H. Goddard, Robert Laughlin was a physics professor.
Fedora 15 Lovelock May 24, 2011 Lovelock is the name of a town in Nevada, just like Laughlin.
Fedora 16 Verne November 8, 2011 Jules Verne , like James Lovelock, was a futurist.
Fedora 17 Beefy Miracle May 29, 2012 Just like “Verne”, “Beefy Miracle” was a suggested name for Fedora 16.
Fedora 18 Spherical Cow January 15, 2013 Both “Beefy Miracle” and “ Spherical Cow ” have never been seen in reality.
Fedora 19 Schrödinger's Cat 2nd of July 2013 Both Schrödinger's cat and “Spherical Cow” are a physical thought experiment. This name was freely suggested and won in a vote just ahead of Higgs Boson .
Fedora 20 Heisenbug November 2013 Just like Schrödinger's cat, a Heisenbug is only in a certain state when you try to observe it and otherwise both states at the same time. Schrödinger's cat is dead and alive at the same time until an attempt is made to examine its condition. The name refers to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle .

This series of names ended with Fedora 20.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Josh Boyer: Release Name process ended. Fedora community advisory board mailing list, October 2, 2013, accessed December 5, 2014 .
  2. ↑ admin.fedoraproject.org ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / admin.fedoraproject.org
  3. ↑ Fedora 15: Beta defines final features. April 19, 2011, accessed June 5, 2011 .
  4. ↑ blogs.fedoraproject.org ( Memento of the original from October 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blogs.fedoraproject.org
  5. ↑ lists.fedoraproject.org
  6. ↑ fedoraproject.org
  7. ↑ lists.fedoraproject.org
  8. ↑ Releases / 17 / Schedule. The Fedora Project, accessed May 18, 2012 .
  9. ↑ pro-linux.de
  10. ↑ Fedora 18 release name. Retrieved June 12, 2012 .
  11. ↑ Releases / 18 / Schedule. The Fedora Project, accessed January 12, 2013 .
  12. ↑ Fedora 18 will be called Spherical Cow - Pro-Linux. Pro-Linux , accessed June 12, 2012 .
  13. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-November/003117.html
  14. ↑ Results of Fedora 19 Release Name Voting. Retrieved November 29, 2012 .
  15. ↑ Hans-Joachim Baader: The Fedora developers voted for the name Schrödinger's Cat for Fedora version 19 in a vote. Pro-Linux , accessed January 12, 2013 .
  16. ^ Robyn Bergeron: Results of Fedora 20 Release Name Voting. Red Hat, Inc., September 3, 2013, accessed September 3, 2013 .

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