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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz by walrus01 on Monday January 06, 2020 @01:37AM (#21967052)
I think they should turn it over to the people at the Debian project who name every release for a toy story character. Old list I've pasted here, buster is now a stable release.

1.1 Buzz 1996-06-17 Buzz Lightyear

1.2 Rex 1996-12-12 Rex (the T-Rex)

1.3 Bo 1997-06-05 Bo Peep

2.0 Hamm 1998-07-24 Hamm (the pig)

2.1 Slink 1999-03-09 Slinky Dog

2.2 Potato 2000-08-15 Mr Potato Head

3.0 Woody 2002-07-19 Woody the cowboy

3.1 Sarge 2005-06-06 Sarge from the Bucket O’ Soldiers

4.0 Etch 2007-04-08 Etch, the Etch-A-Sketch

5.0 Lenny 2009-02-14 Lenny, the binoculars

6.0 Squeeze 2011-02-06 Squeeze toy aliens

7 Wheezy 2013-05-04 Wheezy the penguin

8 Jessie 2015-04-26 Jessie the cowgirl

9 Stretch 2017-06-17 Rubber octopus from Toy Story 3

10 Buster not yet released Andy’s pet dog

11 Bullseye Not yet released Woody’s horse

Sid "unstable" The next door neighbour

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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz by iso1210 on Monday January 06, 2020 @05:14AM (#21968012)
> Sid "unstable" The next door neighbour

Still In Development

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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz by dspillett on Monday January 06, 2020 @09:23AM (#21969294)
It is possible for something to intentionally have a double meaning.

Given the overall naming convention I'd actually hazzard a guess that Sid the ToyStory character was the initial reason for the name and Still In Development is a backronym.

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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz by iso1210 on Monday January 06, 2020 @05:59PM (#21974461)
I think it was a backronym, but it was referred to when I first used Debian in 2000 so it's hardly new
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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz by samueloph on Monday January 06, 2020 @05:50AM (#21968151)
Sid, aka the kid who broke toys
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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz by jlgaddis on Monday January 06, 2020 @03:28AM (#21967539)
... and, someday, "bookworm"!
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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz by robinoh on Monday January 06, 2020 @05:45AM (#21968129)
Forky?! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forky
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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz by jlgaddis on Monday January 06, 2020 @01:27PM (#21971590)
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianBookworm
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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz by pilsetnieks on Monday January 06, 2020 @10:34AM (#21969847)
Buster was released in July 2019
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