Meaning of "Yarrow"

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 10:02 11/6/2003, you wrote:
>Just curious. This has been bugging me. Wasn't "Shrike" the name of a 
>previous release of redhat? I know that the Shrike is from the great 
>sci-fi novel Hyperion. Now if I'm not mistaken, wasn't there a "Yarrow" 
>tree or something in the book too? Is that the relation between these two 
>release names? Sorry if I am totally off-base here, but in the back of my 
>mind this has been driving me crazy.

Red Hat tradition is to always have _some_ relationship between one name 
and the next. So your theory is quite possibly the reason why one is Shrike 
and the next Yarrow. You can now suppose that Fedora Core 2 will have a 
name related to Yarrow but not necessarily to Shrike.


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
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