F8 Release Name Suggestion

Douglas McClendon dmc.fedora at filteredperception.org
Wed Aug 15 21:27:00 UTC 2007


Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 11:34 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
>> Tony Nelson wrote:
>>> At 10:21 AM +1000 8/14/07, Norman Gaywood wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 10:19:17PM +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>>>> * Moonshine theory is a Mathematical theory.
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonshine_theory
>>>> by John Conway, who also devised the "Game of Life".
>>>>
>>>> A well known object in the Game of Life is the glider.
>>>>
>>>> So moonshine --> glider
>>> Fine with me!
>> +1 bazillion from me
>>
>> And hey, maybe if we chose the glider, ESR would switch back to fedora.
> 
> That sounds like a vote against to me?

It was half a troll.  But then I thought more about it, and even though 
I didn't follow that thread closely, wasn't the big gist of it codec 
usability, and isn't that looking like one of the big possible selling 
features of the F8 release?

-dmc





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