This page is Outdated but documents release names prior to their termination following Fedora 20. In much older releases the name was decided by a small group of people internal to Red Hat, but has become a community process in later releases.

Release name relationships

Name n and n+1 must share an is-a (not a has-a) relationship, but n and n+2 must not share the same is-a relationship as n and n+1. The release names we put up for vote tend to have multiple meanings so as to allow us to select a new name with a different relationship for the next release. It is part of the fun!

Guidelines for release names

Release name history

Fedora 21 (Twenty One)

Releases are no longer named starting with this release.

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/advisory-board/2013-October/012209.html

Fedora 20 (Heisenbug)

Heisenbug is a term for a software bug that seems to disappear or alter its behaviour when one attempts to study it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug

Fedora 19 (Schrödinger's Cat)

Schrödinger's cat corresponds to a theoretical thought experiment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat

Fedora 18 (Spherical Cow)

Spherical Cow is something that has never been observed, and may also therefore be considered as a theoretical thought experiment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow

Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle)

Beefy Miracle is a name that was suggested for Fedora 16 (like Verne), and is also something that has never been observed.

http://beefymiracle.org/history.html

Fedora 16 (Verne)

James Lovelock is a futurologist, and so was Jules Verne

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Verne

Fedora 15 (Lovelock)

Laughlin is a city in the state of Nevada (United States), and so is Lovelock.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovelock,_Nevada

Fedora 14 (Laughlin)

Robert H. Goddard was a professor of physics, and so was Robert Laughlin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_B._Laughlin

Fedora 13 (Goddard)

Константи́н Эдуа́рдович Циолко́вский (Konstantin/Constantine Tsiolkovsky) was a rocket scientist, and so was Robert Goddard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Goddard

Fedora 12 (Constantine)

Constantine is the name of Township in St. Joseph County, Michigan in the United States, as well as a name of a bay in the United Kingdom.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine,_Michigan

There are several other connections listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine

Fedora 11 (Leonidas)

Leonidas was a ship in the United States Navy.

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-l/ad7.htm

Leonidas is also the name of a king.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonidas_I

Fedora 10 (Cambridge)

Cambridge is a city in the United States, as well as being original code name of Red Hat Linux 10 (before it became Fedora Core 1), and was the name of a ship in the United States Navy.

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-c/cambridg.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge%2C_Massachusetts

Voting results: http://jwboyer.fedorapeople.org/fedora10relname.txt.asc

Fedora 9 (Sulphur)

Sulphur is an element that causes an adverse reaction (tarnishing) when it contacts silver. In mythology, it is an element used to drive away werewolves. Sulphur is also a city in the United States.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver#Silver_compounds

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-December/msg01194.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulphur,_Louisiana

Fedora 8 (Werewolf)

Werewolf is the name of a movie about a dude who turns into a werewolf. A werewolf also has an adverse reaction (death) when it comes into contact with silver.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118137/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolf

Fedora 7 (Moonshine)

Moonshine is an independent record label, and also the name of a movie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonshine_Music

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0009389/

Fedora Core 6 (Zod)

General Zod is a character in the DC Comics universe, as well as an independent record label.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Zod

http://www.zodrecords.com/

Fedora Core 5 (Bordeaux)

Bordeaux is a wine-producing region in France, as well as a comic book character.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bordeaux

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasha_Bordeaux

Fedora Core 4 (Stentz)

Andre Stentz is a French winery. As such, both Heidelberg and Stentz are distributors of alcoholic beverages.

http://www.andre-stentz.fr/

Fedora Core 3 (Heidelberg)

Heidelberg is a city in Germany, and also a brand/distributor of beer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidelberg

http://www.heidelbergdistributing.com

Fedora Core 2 (Tettnang)

Tettnang is a city in Germany that is a producer of hops.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tettnang

Fedora Core 1 (Yarrow)