So we’ve got Longhorn coming out from Windows. Apple is releasing Panther to replace Jaguar. Boooring.

The new Linux kernel (2.6) has been released. It’s been codenamed “stoned beaver”. Inspired by a previous kernel release known as “greased weasel”. Okay, that’s not bad.

Here’s a program that’s really got it going with the version release names: Pan (a newsreader for Gnome).

Release 0.10.0.92 of PAN was code named “Andrew Orlowski Can Kiss My Ass”. Andrew Orlowski, by the way, is one of my favourite tech journalists. He lives in SF and writes for the UK based The Register. By the way.

Current beta release of PAN is 0.14.2.90 (“A Bouquet of Corpses”). Current stable version is 0.14.2 (“This is not a psychotic episode. It’s a cleansing moment of clarity.”). For a long and eddifying journey through the past release codenames, you could dig through PAN’s news archives. There you will find, for example, 0.9.7pre2 (“beware of the leopard”) – Hitchhiker’s Guide fans will get that one – and also 0.9.7pre5 (“Neddie Seagoon”). To know what the hell a Neddie Seagoon is, it would help if you knew what this is all about.