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GODhack
30th April 2008, 10:48 PM
It is probably too late to change something. And maybe this is stupid topic at all, but why Fedora 9 has name Sulfur?

I am biochemistry student.

And when I go to that main page with yellow crystals...it goes to so bad associations.
Sulfur compounds have EXTREMELY bad smell. When you have to work with sulfur without gloves for few hours it becomes almost impossible to eat with hands (something like chips) for few days.

And organic compounds with sulfur also have nice smell of rotten things or even worse and hard to explain.
So much that for some compounds even at 10^–8 concentration levels (one drop for big room) everyone run away or search for gas masks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanethiol
In wikipedia category "Foul-smelling_chemicals" have only one subcategory "Thiols" it means big type of sulfur compounds. And at all thing "it smells bad" means almost same like "it smells like sulfur compounds".

So please at least next time (10) call new version something like Oxygen or Nitrogen or carbon (with diamond image). Thanks.

Seve
30th April 2008, 11:02 PM
Hello:
This topic has been discussed several months ago.

No one here has any influence over the naming of Fedora Releases. The Developers do not monitor the forums.

If you wish to find out more or have some suggestions, then use the appropriate resources located here: Communicating (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate)

Seve

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RahulSundaram
1st May 2008, 07:08 AM

Hi,

The reasoning for the code names is explained in

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Names

sailor
1st May 2008, 03:16 PM
You notice that all the names have a link to each other...moonshine > Werewolf>Sulfur
full moon brings out werewolves...sulfur is used to drive away werewolves....this continues all the way back from FC1.