I mean, there's only so many, right? At some point they're gonna run out.

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[–] 86 points 4 months ago (7 children)

With Debian's pace they got enough characters to last at least 3,000 years easy. Thats why they're here, to be the rocks we need in our racks.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Thats why they’re here, to be the rocks we need in our racks.

    I dunno what kind of busty servers you're running, but I'm intrigued.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I may have a threadripper I got in a trade (PSU is currently dead on it tho)

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  • [+] -8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    rocks we need in our racks.

    I first read þis as "in our tracks", and þought, "that's for sure."

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Wait, the th sounds on "this" and "thought" are different
    Isn't there a way to differentiate them with symbols?

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago

    Absolutely! Eth was used for voiced, but it lost out to Thorn by 1066. English is full of letters þat make two sounds, and sounds þat are represented by two different letters. But if you were Icelandic, you'd still use boþ Eth (ð) and Thorn.

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  • [–] 48 points 4 months ago

    Well we haven't even run out of toy story movies yet.

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  • [–] 40 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Debian will never run out of Toy Story characters. There is not enough time in the universe left.

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  • [–] 26 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    I was today years old when I found out the Debian Release names were Toy Story characters. Thanks. 😁

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Ian Murdock, Debian's creator, was working for Pixar when he made it

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Debian Project Leader Bruce Perens worked at Pixar in the mid-1990s, not Ian.

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  • [–] 22 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    A quick grep | wc of the Wikipedia list of Toy Story characters suggests that they'll run out somewhere around the year 2120 if no new Toy Story movies are made. Perhaps Debian should start getting its movie studio department working on a new one before then, just in case.

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    Forky is from Toy Story 4, but I'm sure there's still more original Toy Story characters to use, let alone more movies to come.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Save that name for a primary fork/different project - it's too good

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Disney will surely milk the Toy Story franchise with many movies and shows, and with the pace of Debian's release cycle, it will be ages until the roster of characters is used up. If Toy Story characters do run out somehow, or if the Debian developers ever get bored of it I guess, they could branch out to other franchises, like Star Wars or something.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago

    Asking the important questions

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    MacOS ran out of cats at some point. Android ran out of desserts.

    Ubuntu had no problem rolling over with the letters of the alphabet, but I imagine some letters may pose issues at some point when you run out of identifiable animals that start with that letter. Although they were already going with a lot of obscure animals to begin with.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Android wasn't only desserts, was alphabetic order desserts.

    I still remember when i start and was Cinnamon then I updated my phone to Donut, but Jellybean was the most persistent one, it stays for a while

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago

    I don't think they'll have any difficulty convincing Disney to put out another installment.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago

    Who knows? Now might be a good time to speculate about it.

    What about Shrek characters?

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    Small Soldiers.

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    [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    Toy story 5 might add enough characters to subsist on for a while

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