| 23 Dec 2025 |
 Sigmanificient | We are moving out of animals names? | 22:48:15 |
 Grimmauld (any/all) |
- Latin alphabet: a technical limitation, we want boot names to display it correctly. No Unicode.
- "Neutral" names. We want everyone to identify with a release, or at least not be alienated by a name.
- memorable names. Just a number is not super memorable. It works, but then we wouldn't need code names at all.
- clear ordering. Lexicographic ordering is good, because it is obvious. Distances of celestial bodies would not be immediately obvious.
| 22:50:51 |
| Grimmauld (any/all) | At least that is my take. Animals tick all boxes. | 22:51:48 |
 dish [Fox/It/She] | what about minerals? whether metals or gems or rocks or something like that | 23:31:31 |
 Scrumplex | Also plants (and probably many other things)
But is there really a need to change anything? No matter what group of things we pick, we will have to roll over every 26 releases | 23:37:18 |
| Grimmauld (any/all) | Finding things for qxyz not yet burnt by Ubuntu isn't trivial, but I guess that issue is ten years away | 23:38:31 |
 hexa | the gulf of … no idea 😄 | 23:43:33 |
| hexa | or drop the names and instead throw in some silly trivia | 23:45:01 |
| hexa | https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3141/#:~:text=And%20now%20for%20something%20completely%20different | 23:45:03 |
| hexa | (nope, let's not do that) | 23:45:07 |
 infinisil | There's no need of course, but it's fun to switch things up every once in a while. We only have such an opportunity once every ~13 years :) | 23:51:00 |
 avocadoom | In reply to @hexa:lossy.network
or drop the names and instead throw in some silly trivia Silly trivia unfortunately translates pretty poorly into release artwork 😅 | 23:54:11 |
| hexa | which is entirely optional, let's be honest | 23:54:25 |
| avocadoom | I mean, it's work saved | 23:54:44 |
| avocadoom | I don't complain | 23:54:50 |
| avocadoom | Though it can be pretty sick, looking at our last release artwork | 23:55:06 |
| 24 Dec 2025 |
| Scrumplex | I could see some pretty flowers that incorporate the NixOS logo | 00:41:32 |
| hexa | yeah, visually a good match | 00:54:29 |
 lennart | my private hostname system is going through this list, so yea :b https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_autonomous_areas_by_country | 03:52:54 |
| lennart | I like that idea | 03:53:30 |
 vivekanandan_ks | Redacted or Malformed Event | 05:20:36 |
| vivekanandan_ks | Redacted or Malformed Event | 05:21:11 |
| vivekanandan_ks | Quantum particles route is also there 💪 | 05:23:21 |
 tom | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_plant_genus_names_with_etymologies_(A%E2%80%93C)#Genera maybe? | 07:56:45 |
| 25 Dec 2025 |
| lennart changed their profile picture. | 10:32:38 |
| 26 Dec 2025 |
|  jappie changed their display name from jappie to jappie @ 39c3. | 15:49:41 |
| 27 Dec 2025 |
| jappie changed their display name from jappie @ 39c3 to jasper @ 39c3 ☎️ 62749. | 13:30:50 |
| 28 Dec 2025 |
|  rtunreal changed their display name from rtunreal to rtunreal | DECT: 6311. | 00:46:59 |
 Arian | In reply to @grimmauld:m.grimmauld.de
Vicuna was already broken in boot screens because unicode. Can we stick to latin alphabet please? Actually more reason for non-Latin alphabet in my opinion | 18:54:49 |
| Grimmauld (any/all) | Sure, making non-latin work would be good to be inclusive! But unless you can point to the person who wants to fix all the ensuing issues, i still vote no. | 18:59:28 |
