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Who decides these distribution names?
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On Tue, 29 Jul 2025, Colin McGregor via Talk wrote:

> My bad, I was looking at some old stuff... There is currently a
> planned release date for "Trixie", so barring some huge strange /
> bizarre last minute issue "Trixie" will be out August 9th, 2025.
>
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM Colin McGregor <colin.mc151@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Below is a story about where Debian 13 (aka: "Trixie") stands
>> regarding the Y2038 issue. In quick summary the Y2038 issue is that
>> time in the current stable Debian release (and to the best of my
>> knowledge all other Linux distributions) stores time as a 32 bit
>> number with the number of seconds since January 1st, 1970 AD. After
>> 03:14:07 UTC on January 19, 2038 you may have Linux systems thinking
>> it is 1970.
>>
>>  "Trixie" will be the first Debian release to use 64 bit time. so they
>> will be kicking the issue of running out of time from 2038 to
>> 40,000,000,000 A.D. which should be good enough for most applications
>> :-) . Trixie is in final testing with a final release date not yet
>> announced, so this is in the "coming soon" class...
>>
>> https://lowendbox.com/blog/starting-to-catch-up-linux-finally-addresses-the-epochalypse-that-openbsd-fixed-in-2014/
>>
>> For anyone who is saying to themselves this doesn't matter to me
>> because I run ..."<<Blah>>"... Linux remember that a bunch of other
>> Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu and Raspberry Pi OS are based off
>> of Debian, so this change will ...echo... well outside just Debian.
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