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I always like Linux kernel names, but can't find this one. Does it have a name?


Shuffling Zombie Juror (http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.g...)

From the RC1 announcement (http://lwn.net/Articles/583929/):

  I realize that as a number, 3.14 looks familiar to people, and I had
  naming requests related to that. But that's simply not how the
  nonsense kernel names work. You can console yourself with the fact
  that the name doesn't actually show up anywhere, and nobody really
  cares. So any pi-related name you make up will be *quite* as relevant
  as the one in the main Makefile, so don't get depressed.

  Besides, any self-respecting geek will know pi to twenty decimal
  places from their dorky youth, so 3.14 isn't really *that* close, is
  it?


Aww, it could at least have been named "Shuffling Zombie Pie"!


Well, the 3.14 series (including RCs) is all named the same it seems:

Shuffling Zombie Juror

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....


Ah okay, thought the RC version was different. Thanks!




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