Ubuntu releases are always alliterative Adjectival Animals (assigned alphabetically).

This naming scheme seemed extremely shortsighted to me as it wreaks havoc on Internet text searches. It forces one to search for numerous possible references to a release: the adjective alone, the animal name alone, the release number, maybe abbreviations or nicknames of the code name, and so on.

You know there's also a version number, always worked great for me.

The issue I have more often is that APT repos generally are just named "jammy" or such, and then you have to remember which release that was.

Background for the curious:

> So, what's with the "Funky Fairy" naming system? Many sensible people have wondered why we chose this naming scheme. It came about as a joke on a ferry between Circular Quay and somewhere else, in Sydney, Australia:

> lifeless: how long before we make a first release?

> sabdfl: it would need to be punchy. six months max.

> lifeless: six months! thats not a lot of time for polish.

> sabdfl: so we'll have to nickname it the warty warthog release.

> And voila, the name stuck.

(First Ubuntu release was "Ubuntu 4.10 - Warty Warthog")

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames

I'm surprised this is not mentioned on Ubuntu's wiki but this is called Alliteration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliteration

one project, RedHat/Fedora or something, was a pattern like "word A", "word B related to word A", "word C related to an alternate meaning of word B", etc.

Yes, both RedHat and Fedora used a free association-like naming scheme.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/History_of_Red_Hat_Linux

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/releases/name_history/

(Vouched for parent comment since it was on-topic.)

VLC Media Player uses Discworld character names.