Absolutely! Eth was used for voiced, but it lost out to Thorn by 1066. English is full of letters þat make two sounds, and sounds þat are represented by two different letters. But if you were Icelandic, you'd still use boþ Eth (ð) and Thorn.
A quick grep | wc of the Wikipedia list of Toy Story characters suggests that they'll run out somewhere around the year 2120 if no new Toy Story movies are made. Perhaps Debian should start getting its movie studio department working on a new one before then, just in case.
Disney will surely milk the Toy Story franchise with many movies and shows, and with the pace of Debian's release cycle, it will be ages until the roster of characters is used up. If Toy Story characters do run out somehow, or if the Debian developers ever get bored of it I guess, they could branch out to other franchises, like Star Wars or something.
MacOS ran out of cats at some point. Android ran out of desserts.
Ubuntu had no problem rolling over with the letters of the alphabet, but I imagine some letters may pose issues at some point when you run out of identifiable animals that start with that letter. Although they were already going with a lot of obscure animals to begin with.
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Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 80 pts · 101d
With Debian's pace they got enough characters to last at least 3,000 years easy. Thats why they're here, to be the rocks we need in our racks.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 101d
I dunno what kind of busty servers you're running, but I'm intrigued.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 2 pts · 101d
I may have a threadripper I got in a trade (PSU is currently dead on it tho)
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 101d
still not beating the big boobs parallels.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 2 pts · 101d
She host modded Minecraft real gud tho
Sxan@piefed.zip · -6 pts · 101d
I first read þis as "in our tracks", and þought, "that's for sure."
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 101d
Wait, the th sounds on "this" and "thought" are different
Isn't there a way to differentiate them with symbols?
Sxan@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 101d
Absolutely! Eth was used for voiced, but it lost out to Thorn by 1066. English is full of letters þat make two sounds, and sounds þat are represented by two different letters. But if you were Icelandic, you'd still use boþ Eth (ð) and Thorn.
agentTeiko@piefed.social · 47 pts · 101d
Well we haven't even run out of toy story movies yet.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml · 37 pts · 101d
Debian will never run out of Toy Story characters. There is not enough time in the universe left.
Admetus@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 101d
10^78^ years of it according to one theory.
kpax@piefed.social · 24 pts · 101d
I was today years old when I found out the Debian Release names were Toy Story characters. Thanks. 😁
Eric@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 101d
Ian Murdock, Debian's creator, was working for Pixar when he made it
Slashme@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 101d
Debian Project Leader Bruce Perens worked at Pixar in the mid-1990s, not Ian.
Eric@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 101d
Thanks for the correction
cornshark@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 100d
Cuthbert's Law strikes again!
rmrf@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 99d
...Cunningham’s Law?
cornshark@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 100d
hexabs@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 100d
You meant Cunningham's didn't you, you sly dog😉
null@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 100d
My fav is that Sid is named after the kid who blows up toys and puts them back together. The best name for an unstable release :-D
kbal@fedia.io · 21 pts · 101d
A quick
grep | wcof the Wikipedia list of Toy Story characters suggests that they'll run out somewhere around the year 2120 if no new Toy Story movies are made. Perhaps Debian should start getting its movie studio department working on a new one before then, just in case.jacksilver@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 101d
Toy Story 5 comes out this summer....... So, yeah
lengau@midwest.social · 15 pts · 101d
Toy Story 2 characters
SteveTech@aussie.zone · 15 pts · 101d
Forky is from Toy Story 4, but I'm sure there's still more original Toy Story characters to use, let alone more movies to come.
eighty@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 101d
Save that name for a primary fork/different project - it's too good
UntimedDiffusion@piefed.zip · 10 pts · 101d
Too late. Forky is already the name for Debian 14
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 101d
forkteen
eighty@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 99d
Tragic
sbeak@sopuli.xyz · 14 pts · 101d
Disney will surely milk the Toy Story franchise with many movies and shows, and with the pace of Debian's release cycle, it will be ages until the roster of characters is used up. If Toy Story characters do run out somehow, or if the Debian developers ever get bored of it I guess, they could branch out to other franchises, like Star Wars or something.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 101d
Plinkett : It was then they moved onto OTHER star wars characters, like Dexter Jettster... and Oobut Boontu.
tirateimas@lemmy.pt · 11 pts · 101d
Asking the important questions
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 101d
MacOS ran out of cats at some point. Android ran out of desserts.
Ubuntu had no problem rolling over with the letters of the alphabet, but I imagine some letters may pose issues at some point when you run out of identifiable animals that start with that letter. Although they were already going with a lot of obscure animals to begin with.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 100d
The buffet table I eat at has the same problem on occasion.
Go full Ubuntu ? next release Transcendental Toad
olympicyes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 100d
Toxoplasmic Tabby.
tio_bira@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 99d
Android wasn't only desserts, was alphabetic order desserts.
I still remember when i start and was Cinnamon then I updated my phone to Donut, but Jellybean was the most persistent one, it stays for a while
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 101d
I don't think they'll have any difficulty convincing Disney to put out another installment.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 100d
Small Soldiers.
webkitten@piefed.social · 6 pts · 101d
BlindFrog@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 101d
Toy story 5 might add enough characters to subsist on for a while
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 101d
Voice actors
Sickday@kbin.earth · 7 pts · 101d
can't wait for Debian 56 - "Tim Allen" AEUGH??
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 101d
Oh man, the AEUGH?? killed me lol
jobbies@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 99d