Re: Linux 2.6.2 aka "Feisty Dunnart"

From: Gene Heskett
Date: Wed Feb 04 2004 - 12:46:32 EST


On Wednesday 04 February 2004 11:55, Dale Harris wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 09:43:22AM -0500, Ian Soboroff elucidated:
>> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>> > I just pushed out the BK trees, and the tar-ball/patches are
>> > going out as I write this, for Linux 2.6.2. The honor of naming
>> > it goes to Gernot Heiser, for reasons that are largely
>> > alcoholic, I suspect. Good job!
>>
>> For the benefit of those of you who, like me, didn't know what a
>> dunnart is, from http://library.thinkquest.org/28994/dunnart.html:
>
>So is this going to be a new mascot for Linux? Is favor turning to
>Dunnarts rather than Penguins? ;-)>

I'd be carefull about imitating the "mouse that roared" too closely,
in another year without pixar, they might be only able to manage a
very quiet squeek.

:-)

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