Codenames of all suse versions?

kirbyiwaki · April 22, 2011, 2:00am

I’ve been planning to draw (I draw xD kirbyiwaki.deviantart.com) a suse-tan (like a girl mascot for suse), but I want her to have different costumes and stuff, so I think a good idea would be adapt them like the codename versions (in case of 11.4, Celadon).

Problem is, I can’t seem to find older codenames, does anybody has a list of them?

Thanks in advance!

martin_helm · April 22, 2011, 2:40am

I remember 11.2 as Emerald and 11.3 as Teal, but never followed that really
so I am not sure there were previous names at all. (I use linux since 1995
which by the way was sold by S. u. S. E. but did not have this name and
never took care about that).

hcvv · April 22, 2011, 10:13am

AFAIK people here just call them 9.0 … 11.4, which look is “code” like enough IMHO.

DenverD · April 22, 2011, 10:35am

On 04/22/2011 02:06 AM, kirbyiwakitsukino wrote:
>
> Problem is, I can’t seem to find older codenames, does anybody has a
> list of them?

most folks don’t know the code names…and, as far as i know most didn’t
have a code name…they just had a ‘real’ name, like S.u.S.E Linux 3/94,
or SuSE Linux 9.0, or openSUSE 10.2…

its all ‘grown up’ enterprise software, games and such came from
Redmond and the code names picked by their marketing department to cause
a buzzzzzzzzzz in the computer press…

i well remember how their “Chicago” was promised for years that it
would be the best software on the planet, and maybe so good there
would never ever be another…“Chicago” was released as Windows 95…

anyway, if you can’t find a list, what would be the use of using code
names that no one knows? there is a long list of the real names in this
article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSE_Linux_distributions

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kirbyiwaki · April 25, 2011, 8:31pm

But if we have emerald, teal and celadon… there must be somebody that knows all the code names, even if they are recent. Remember what I want to use them for ;__;

caf4926 · April 25, 2011, 8:39pm

12.1 Asparagus

martin_helm · April 25, 2011, 8:44pm

kirbyiwakitsukino wrote:

>
> But if we have emerald, teal and celadon… there must be somebody that
> knows all the code names, even if they are recent. Remember what I want
> to use them for ;__;
>
Perhaps this are all the codenames ever used

hendersj · April 25, 2011, 9:05pm

On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 08:35:43 +0000, DenverD wrote:

> its all ‘grown up’ enterprise software, games and such came from Redmond
> and the code names picked by their marketing department to cause a
> buzzzzzzzzzz in the computer press…

Well, no, project code names have been in use since before the PC age. I
don’t think Microsoft popularized it, either, I seem to recall that even
software that predated Microsoft sometimes had a project ‘code name’ (I
want to say Visicalc did, as an example). DARPA also had a tendency to
do this.

Jim

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kirbyiwaki · April 25, 2011, 9:09pm

I was hoping caf4926 would be the one that could help me OTL

DenverD · April 26, 2011, 12:49am

On 04/25/2011 09:05 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:

> Well, no, project code names have been in use since before the PC age. I
> don’t think Microsoft popularized it,

well really!

of course DARPA would have used project code names, as its roots are in
matters military…and, code words and code names and project codes have
been around since long before Bill Gates (or anyone at Visicalc) wore
his (their) first diaper(s)…probably preceded the abacus…

i have no idea which software maker popularized it as a marketing
come-on, but i do know that Redmond was ‘selling’ the coming of Chicago
for years before it was released at midnight some evening in late '95…

and, they have had a vaporware code named project (rumored to cure all
ills of the current release, AND bake delicious bread) ever since the
first elephant could fly…

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hendersj · April 26, 2011, 1:12am

On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:49:25 +0000, DenverD wrote:

> On 04/25/2011 09:05 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>
>> Well, no, project code names have been in use since before the PC age.
>> I don’t think Microsoft popularized it,
>
> well really!
>
> of course DARPA would have used project code names, as its roots are in
> matters military…and, code words and code names and project codes have
> been around since long before Bill Gates (or anyone at Visicalc) wore
> his (their) first diaper(s)…probably preceded the abacus…

I thought you probably knew that, given your background, so I was
honestly a little surprised that you seemed to be indicating it came out
of Microsoft first.

> i have no idea which software maker popularized it as a marketing
> come-on, but i do know that Redmond was ‘selling’ the coming of Chicago
> for years before it was released at midnight some evening in late
> '95…

I remember “Chicago” quite well - I had a contract to write a book (about
something other than Windows) and the publisher screwed up and put a
“right of first refusal” clause for books relating to “Chicago” rather
than the topic our book was about. It was actually pretty interesting
when we went to write a second book on the same topic with a different
publisher.

> and, they have had a vaporware code named project (rumored to cure all
> ills of the current release, AND bake delicious bread) ever since the
> first elephant could fly…

Jim

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DenverD · April 26, 2011, 6:00pm

On 04/26/2011 01:12 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> I thought you probably knew that, given your background, so I was
> honestly a little surprised that you seemed to be indicating it came out
> of Microsoft first.

heh! it wasn’t my intention to claim the Redmond originated anythings so
useful as code names…

i’m not, however, conversant in the history of software publishers which
preceded MS using code names for just-around-the-corner vaporware (like
“Chicago” to try to keep folks from buying (say) already released, and
superior OS/2 and whatever it was that Apple had on the shelf, which was
copied to rush the first Windows out the door)…

there may have been many other software sellers who used the same
strategy…i do not know…

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kirbyiwaki · April 28, 2011, 8:51pm

Should I give up, then? I think the convo just went off-topic xD

Lord_Emsworth · April 28, 2011, 9:09pm

Here is the German Wikipedia entry for openSUSE:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSUSE#Versionen

The column ‘Anmerkungen’ (comments, annotations) gives only the codenames of 11.2 (Emerald), 11.3 (Teal) and 11.4 (Celadon) - and that is it. Which suggests that this might be all there has been.

hcvv · April 28, 2011, 9:23pm

And the reaction so far “might” point to the fact that nobody here is interested in those silly names. Most people seem to be glad when somebody, asking a question here, does post at all if he has 10.3 or 11.4 or whatever. I at least do not want an extra translation table from silly name to openSUSE level and/or backwards on my desk.

DenverD · April 28, 2011, 9:16pm

On 04/28/2011 09:06 PM, kirbyiwakitsukino wrote:
>
> Should I give up, then? I think the convo just went off-topic xD

you got the answer!

no one knows of any code names other than the three in this thread (i’m
not sure, but i think caf was pulling your leg with “asparagus”…

i certainly never heard any others mentioned…

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martin_helm · April 28, 2011, 9:17pm

kirbyiwakitsukino wrote:

>
> Should I give up, then? I think the convo just went off-topic xD
>
My original answer was meant serious. I think the versions before 11.2 had
no code names.
I looked also into the germen version of wikipedia and it mentions the code
names for 11.2, 11.3, 11.4 but none of the earlier versions. So I really
think 11.1 and earlier had only the numbers.

malcolmlewis · April 28, 2011, 9:28pm

SUSE Linux 10.1 Codename ‘Agama Lizard’
SUSE Linux 10.0 Codename ‘Prague’
Suse Linux 9.3 Codename ‘Jinko’

I’d ask on the project mailing list as someone there will be sure to
know.

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kirbyiwaki · April 28, 2011, 9:51pm

Thank you to everyone. As I said, is not that I care much about the names per se, but I want to design clothes for a hypothetical suse-tan. Special thanks to Malcolm Lewis for extending the list to six.

martin_helm · April 28, 2011, 9:53pm

malcolmlewis wrote:
>
> SUSE Linux 10.1 Codename ‘Agama Lizard’
> SUSE Linux 10.0 Codename ‘Prague’
> Suse Linux 9.3 Codename ‘Jinko’
>
> I’d ask on the project mailing list as someone there will be sure to
> know.
>
I somehow doubt that this are the names for the releases (but I can be wrong
of course). I remember Agama Lizard (now that I saw this name and some old
brain cells left in my head started to work) for example solely as code name
before it was released for the project during the betas and the RCs you
could download at that time and never mentioned afterwards.
Was it really part of /etc/SuSE-release as today?

Do you know if that is the case? (It is really not important, just curious a
little bit)
But probably that is exactly what the OP looked for.

(I found an old 9.0 here I try to install to find out).