Different suggestion: How about we use the names of Astronomical objects? I was just playing around with Celestia when I noticed that plenty of those moons (ie. around Saturn and Jupiter and others) and many of the asteroids floating around in our Solar system actually have very nice names!FrenchyPhil wrote:Hi Minties all over the planet,
Just an idea in connection with our distro's "guaranteed vintage"
In the nearest future we may have a lot of variations of Linux Mint, starting with Gnome and KDE versions.
It will be difficult to differentiate
Why not giving a girl name for Gnome and a boy name for KDE, with same letter?
For instance:
2.2 Gnome Bianca
2.2 KDE Bruno
3.0 Gnome Cecilia
3.0 KDE Chris or... Clem
etc.
2.3 Boadiceaclem wrote:Katasuka's idea might be the simplest and I like that.
There is a scheme at the moment. I never took much time to explain it.
The version number is made of two parts. The first part corresponds to the version of (k)Ubuntu the release was initially based on:
- 1.x for Kubuntu 6.04
- 2.x for Ubuntu/Kubuntu 6.10
- 3.x for Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu 7.04
The second part is simply the release version number, starting from 0.
Each release has a codename which follows the following rules:
- Ends in "a"
- is a Girl's name
- starts with the letter that corresponds to the first part of the version number in the alphabet ("A" for 1.x, "B" for 2.x...etc)
- is alphabetically greater than all previous codenames used for Linux Mint.
In practice this gives something like:
1.0 Ada, 2.0 Barbara, 2.1 Bea, 2.2 Bianca, 2.3 Bo.....a, 3.0 Ca...a, 3.1 Ce...a
Clem
You really know girls with names like that??Psycho wrote: Kmint and Gmint ?
Why so much "'ado about nothing"? 
Quote: Who is Bianca and why was the name connected with Mintmrc wrote:I am new to linux. I have experimented with a few Linux program. I am very impressed with Mint / Bianca. I read some of your forum and found it cute the comments about the name of your program. I have a question. Who is Bianca and why was the name connected with Mint. Is there a picture? I am impressed however with the program. I will use this program for a while. It appear you are serious about support and a good product. I am using it in the VM world at the moment. I will see if I can get the sound to work. Everything else works even WIFI. I am using a HP L2005 Lance Armstrong Edition Notebook Computer. It does have an odd sound card. Keep up the good work I am impressed: Just curious.D
Why the requirement of a girl's name?clem wrote:There is a scheme at the moment. I never took much time to explain it.
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Each release has a codename which follows the following rules:
- Ends in "a"
- is a Girl's name
- starts with the letter that corresponds to the first part of the version number in the alphabet ("A" for 1.x, "B" for 2.x...etc)
- is alphabetically greater than all previous codenames used for Linux Mint.
In practice this gives something like:
1.0 Ada, 2.0 Barbara, 2.1 Bea, 2.2 Bianca, 2.3 Bo.....a, 3.0 Ca...a, 3.1 Ce...a
Clem
Miss Bianca... I think she is Bianca... 
