Fedora 15 baru saja dirilis, dan Fedora 16 sudah dalam tahap pengembangan. Saatnyalah pemakai dan kontributor Fedora untuk mengusulkan codename baru bari Fedora 17 pada sayembara yang dilakukan oleh Red Hat sebagai Promotor dan Inisiator project Fedora.
Fedora 17 akan direncanakan dirilis pada tahun 2012 setelah rilis Fedora 16 dengan inovasi besar-besaran. Berikut adalah nama-nama yang sudah masuk ke sayembara project ini:
Name  |
“Is a…” |
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Initial Approval |
Comments |
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| Lorenz | was a Nobel Prize winning Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Lorenz | |||||
| Potter | Verne Swain and T.J. Potter were both side wheel steam boats | http://www.riverboatdaves.com/wheeling/vernswain.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.J._Potter | Various approaches for themes | ||||
| Erwin | son of a famous scientist | Max Planck and Emmett Brown being the fathers of Erwin Planck and Verne Brown | Atoms and stuff given Erwin Schrödinger too | ||||
| Neptune | Jules Verne is best known for his visionary ideas and prophecy: inventions that were made real decades later than he “discovered” them on paper. Neptune is the first “fictional” planet discovered on paper by mathematical prediction proved to be real. | This is a common word used in some two- or three-letter names. | Neptune is 17 times the mass of the Earth. It was first discovered on paper when Jules Verne was 17 years old. 🙂 | Neptune: the other Blue Planet in the Solar System. I think this planet fits the Fedora’s style quite well, though I am not an artist. | |||
| Rocky Ripple | town in Indiana | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verne,_Indianahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Ripple,_Indiana | Infinitely themeable! | ||||
| Rutan | Name of an aircraft designer and pilot of the first aircraft to go around the world (Dick Rutan ) | Verne wrote “Around the world in 80 days” so there is a connection | Aircraft, blue sky etc | ||||
| Hugo | Verne was a client of Pierre-Jules Hetzel, so was Victor Hugo | Hugo’s visual art would provide ample inspirational materialhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Victor_Hugo-Setting_Sun.jpghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Victor_Hugo1300.JPG | |||||
| Omoto | Verne is a mount and so is Mt. Omoto (Okinawa’s tallest mountain) | No collisions. | A japanese oriented theme, mixed with nature: http://www.ishigaki-japan.com/activities/omoto | ||||
| Shakespeare | Verne was a playwright, so was Shakespeare | Lots of non-copyright stuff available | |||||
| Ramon | Verne is a name of a crater (on the moon) and Ramon is a name of a crater (on Earth) | Desert landscape | |||||
| Morgan | He was one of the most notorious and successful privateers of all time, and one of the most ruthless who worked in the Spanish Main. | privateers of all time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Morgan | |||||
| Alcatraz | Both Verne and Alcatraz are/were island prisons | There is acomputer gameand aSoftware company | prisons, islands, … rocks? | ||||
| Fenimore | Verne Gagne was a 1947 NFL Draft pick and so was Bob Fenimore | ||||||
| Balboa | Verne is a explorer, conquistador and so is Vasco Nuñez de Balboa | was a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasco_N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez_de_Balboa | |||||
| Lundmark | Eroded crater on the far side of the Moon and located to the northwest is the flooded Jules Verne. | Images of Sweeden, more space/astronomy ideas, clusters, nebulae, galaxies, light distribution (prisms, etc.) | |||||
| Koch | Crater on the far side of the Moon, to the south-southeast of the walled plain Jules Verne. | Images of Germany, science/medical equipment, microscopes, bacteria/microrganisms. | |||||
| Pavlov | Large lunar crater on the far side of the Moon and located just to the southeast of it is the crater Jules Verne. | Images of Russia, dogs, bells, whistles, metronomes, tuning forks. | |||||
| Delaney | Verne is a first name of Old French origins which means “from alder grove”, as Delaney is.[1] | A forest of trees in the birch family. | |||||
| Coral | Captain Nemo is a fictional character featured in Jules Verne’s novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and The Mysterious Island (1874). Nemo is also a character producted by Pixar and so is Colar | Tens of conflicts, seeGoogle 1andGoogle 2 | |||||
| Percheron | Percheron is a large draft horse breed from France known for intelligence and willingness to work, used as war horses, pulling stage coaches and other heavy labor. | Verne and the Percheron are both from France. The Percheron represents strength and stamina. | Aspects of its heritage, such as >Warhorse: battle, military, middle ages & parades >Stagecoach: travel, terrain, travelers & towns >Farm Labor: earthy & labor >Composition such as the dark color, strength & size. |
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| Never | Never is a town in Russia and a crater on Mars. | Never is an anagram of Verne. Both are craters (Verne is a lunar crater). | |||||
| Piccard | Auguste Piccard was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer and invented a deep boat calledBathyscaphe – btw this would be a great name as well – which reached a record maximum depth of about 11,000 meters. | He made height records in ballooning as well. Interesting family history as well: His grandson Betrand will try to orbit the earth with a solar plane in one or two years | deep boat, ballooning, … | ||||
| Shitton Falls | Unincorporated municipality in the state of Indiana | Although, I personally think it is pronounced “She-ten Falls” | Stuff involving waterfalls, or stuff involving chocolate (maybe hire some of the artists from Ubuntu’s “Human” era to help us!) | ||||
| Drake | Larry Verne was a novelty singer who performed a hit song named “Mr. Custer”, and so was Charlie Drake (well, it was a cover, but you get the picture). | Potential, but it is a common term for a dragon (or duck) | Not to be confused with those which are dapper. | Oh, many: fire, dragon scale patterns, elements evoking or representing a dragon, etc. | |||
| Apollo | is crater on the moon | Verne and apollo are both names of moon craters | Apollo was also the name of a nasa program including the apollo eleven mission | ||||
| Farragut | Verne is a storyteller about a Commander Farragut (in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea) as is David Glasgow Farragut a real life naval commander, officer and admiral | ||||||
| Aristarchus | Verne is a lunar crater, and so isAristarchus. | Aristarchus of Samos was the first to present a heliocentric model of the solar system. He also applied logic to estimate the size of the Earth, the size and distance to Moon, the size and and distance to Sun. | Sun, solar system, lunar craters, stars in the sky, sculpture of Aristarchus, etc. | ||||
| Panguipulli | Verne is a lake, and so isPanguipulli. | I’ve not found any software company or software podruct related | Panguipulli comes from “Pangui” (cougar), and “Pulli” (hill), both words in Mapudungun, meaning “Hill of the cougar”. | Animal, wild animals, mountains, hills, etc. | |||
| Gernsback | Along with Jules Verne and H. G. Wells was known as one of the “Fathers of Science Fiction” | Google appears to only find links to information about the man himself. | [2] | Sci-Fi, especially something resembling early 20th century SF illustrations |
Sumber: FedoraProject.org (silakan update info disini)
Sedangkan berikut adalah codename resmi bagi project-project sebelumnya:
- Fedora 16 – Verne
- Fedora 15 – Lovelock
- Fedora 14 – Laughlin
- Fedora 13 – Goddard
- Fedora 12 – Constantine
- Fedora 11 – Leonidas