Fedora 17 Will Be a Beefy Miracle | Linux Today

Fedora 17 Will Be a Beefy Miracle

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 11, 2011

“After a failed bid for Fedora 16, Beefy Miracle has been chosen
as the name for Fedora 17.

That’s right and this is not a joke.

Beefy Miracle lost out to ‘Verne’ for Fedora 16, but somehow
ended up in the running for Fedora 17. The way that Fedora naming
works is that the name of a new release somehow has to be related
to the previous release. So what could the rationale for Beefy
Miracle possibly be?


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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