Re: [PATCH] Well, Linus seems to like Lordi...

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 08:46 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 25 May 2006, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> >
> > If we're going to have release code names for the kernel, might as well
> > advertise them somewhere. :)
> 
> Well, part of the charm of the name is that it's totally meaningless. I 
> can pick names out of my *ss, and they don't matter in the least, and 
> nobody will ever see it except in the kernel diffs.
> 
> (As to Lordi, I've only ever seen their Eurovision thing on Youtube, 
> because those pesky US networks thinks we're interested in some kind of 
> inferior "American Idol" copycat product. But unless you've lived in 
> Finland during the 80s and 90s, you just simply cannot appreciate the 
> "Whaaa?" factor of having Finland win the dang thing. Imagine a whole 
> _country_ going "Whaaa? What the f?" at the same time..).
> 

Hmm, considering how big he is in Finland, maybe the 2.6.18 release
should be code name "Conan" ;)

-- Steve