“Linux distro names started to get ‘weird’ when Ubuntu arrived on the scenes with Weirdly Wacky African-inspired Animal names. Other distros, notably Fedora have taken a more democratic approach where community members vote on the release name, but that could soon change. “
“This cycle, the Board is also asking contributors to let us know if we should continue to have release names for future Fedora releases,
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