List of Linux kernel names
Encyclopedia
Most of the Linux
2.6 and 3.x kernels
include a name in the Makefile of their source trees, which can be found in the git repository.
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
2.6 and 3.x kernels
Linux kernel
The Linux kernel is an operating system kernel used by the Linux family of Unix-like operating systems. It is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software....
include a name in the Makefile of their source trees, which can be found in the git repository.
| Kernel Version | Name |
|---|---|
| 1.3.51 | Greased Weasel Weasel Weasels are mammals forming the genus Mustela of the Mustelidae family. They are small, active predators, long and slender with short legs.... |
| –2.4.15 | Greased Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe... |
| –2.6.1 | none |
| 2.6.2–2.6.3–2.6.4– | Feisty Dunnart Dunnart Dunnarts are furry narrow-footed marsupials the size of a mouse, members of the genus Sminthopsis. They are mainly insectivorous. A male dunnart's Y chromosome has only 4 genes, making it the smallest known mammalian Y chromosome.... |
| 2.6.5–2.6.6–2.6.7–2.6.8–2.6.9 | Zonked Quokka Quokka The Quokka , the only member of the genus Setonix, is a small macropod about the size of a domestic cat. Like other marsupials in the macropod family , the Quokka is herbivorous and mainly nocturnal... |
| 2.6.10-rc1–2.6.10–2.6.11–2.6.12–2.6.13– | Woozy Numbat Numbat The numbat , also known as the banded anteater, or walpurti, is a marsupial found in Western Australia. Its diet consists almost exclusively of termites. Once widespread across southern Australia, the range is now restricted to several small colonies and it is listed as an endangered species... |
| 2.6.14-rc1–2.6.14– | Affluent Albatross Albatross Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds allied to the procellariids, storm-petrels and diving-petrels in the order Procellariiformes . They range widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific... |
| 2.6.15-rc6–2.6.15–2.6.16– | Sliding Götterdämmerung Götterdämmerung is the last in Richard Wagner's cycle of four operas titled Der Ring des Nibelungen... |
| stable: 2.6.16.28-rc2– | Stable Penguin Penguin Penguins are a group of aquatic, flightless birds living almost exclusively in the southern hemisphere, especially in Antarctica. Highly adapted for life in the water, penguins have countershaded dark and white plumage, and their wings have become flippers... |
| 2.6.17-rc5 | Lordi Lordi Lordi is a Finnish hard rock/heavy metal band, formed in 1996 by the band's lead singer, songwriter and costume-designer, Mr. Lordi. The band is known for wearing monster masks and using pyrotechnics during concerts... Rules (Eurovision 2006 Eurovision Song Contest 2006 The Eurovision Song Contest 2006 was the 51st Eurovision Song Contest, held at the Olympic Indoor Hall in Athens, Greece on 18 May and 20 May 2006 . The hosting national broadcaster of the contest was Ellinikí Radiofonía Tileórasi . The Finnish band Lordi won the contest with the song "Hard Rock... ) |
| 2.6.17-rc6–2.6.17– | Crazed Snow-Weasel |
| 2.6.18–2.6.19– | Avast! A bilge Bilge The bilge is the lowest compartment on a ship where the two sides meet at the keel. The word was coined in 1513.-Bilge water:The word is sometimes also used to describe the water that collects in this compartment. Water that does not drain off the side of the deck drains down through the ship into... rat Rat Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents of the superfamily Muroidea. "True rats" are members of the genus Rattus, the most important of which to humans are the black rat, Rattus rattus, and the brown rat, Rattus norvegicus... ! (TLAPD International Talk Like a Pirate Day International Talk Like a Pirate Day is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur and Mark Summers , of Albany, Oregon, U.S., who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate... 2006) |
| 2.6.20-rc2–2.6.20– | Homicidal Dwarf Hamster |
| 2.6.21-rc4–2.6.21– | Nocturnal Monster Puppy Puppy A puppy is a juvenile dog. Some puppies may weigh , while larger ones can weigh up to . All healthy puppies grow quickly after birth. A puppy's coat color may change as the puppy grows older, as is commonly seen in breeds such as the Yorkshire Terrier... |
| 2.6.22-rc3–2.6.22-rc4 | Jeff Jeff Garzik Jeff Garzik is an American Red Hat engineer and Bitcoin developer. He studied at the Georgia Institute of Technology and currently is employed by Red Hat as a kernel developer. He is also the founder of BitcoinWatch, a website for statistics in Bitcoin.... Thinks I Should Change This, But To What? |
| 2.6.22-rc5–2.6.22— | Holy Dancing Manatee Manatee Manatees are large, fully aquatic, mostly herbivorous marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows... s, Batman Batman Batman is a fictional character created by the artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger. A comic book superhero, Batman first appeared in Detective Comics #27 , and since then has appeared primarily in publications by DC Comics... ! |
| 2.6.23-rc4–2.6.23-rc6 | Pink Farting Weasel |
| 2.6.23-rc7–2.6.23–2.6.24– | Arr Matey! A Hairy Bilge Rat! (TLAPD International Talk Like a Pirate Day International Talk Like a Pirate Day is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur and Mark Summers , of Albany, Oregon, U.S., who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate... 2007) |
| stable: 2.6.24.1– | Err Metey! A Heury Beelge-a Ret! |
| 2.6.25-rc2–2.6.25– | Funky Weasel is Jiggy wit it |
| 2.6.26-rc6–2.6.26–2.6.27– | Rotary Wombat Wombat Wombats are Australian marsupials; they are short-legged, muscular quadrupeds, approximately in length with a short, stubby tail. They are adaptable in their habitat tolerances, and are found in forested, mountainous, and heathland areas of south-eastern Australia, including Tasmania, as well as... |
| stable: 2.6.27.3– | Trembling Tortoise Tortoise Tortoises are a family of land-dwelling reptiles of the order of turtles . Like their marine cousins, the sea turtles, tortoises are shielded from predators by a shell. The top part of the shell is the carapace, the underside is the plastron, and the two are connected by the bridge. The tortoise... |
| 2.6.28-rc1–2.6.28-rc6 | Killer Bat Bat Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera "hand" and pteron "wing") whose forelimbs form webbed wings, making them the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight. By contrast, other mammals said to fly, such as flying squirrels, gliding possums, and colugos, glide rather than fly,... of Doom |
| 2.6.28-rc7–2.6.28–2.6.29-rc8 | Erotic Pickled Herring Herring Herring is an oily fish of the genus Clupea, found in the shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific and the North Atlantic oceans, including the Baltic Sea. Three species of Clupea are recognized. The main taxa, the Atlantic herring and the Pacific herring may each be divided into subspecies... |
| 2.6.29 | Temporary Tasmanian Devil Tasmanian Devil The Tasmanian devil is a carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae, now found in the wild only on the Australian island state of Tasmania. The size of a small dog, it became the largest carnivorous marsupial in the world following the extinction of the thylacine in 1936... |
| 2.6.30-rc4–2.6.30-rc6 | Vindictive Armadillo Armadillo Armadillos are New World placental mammals, known for having a leathery armor shell. Dasypodidae is the only surviving family in the order Cingulata, part of the superorder Xenarthra along with the anteaters and sloths. The word armadillo is Spanish for "little armored one"... |
| 2.6.30-rc7–2.6.30–2.6.31–2.6.32–2.6.33–2.6.34-rc4 | Man-Eating Seals Pinniped Pinnipeds or fin-footed mammals are a widely distributed and diverse group of semiaquatic marine mammals comprising the families Odobenidae , Otariidae , and Phocidae .-Overview: Pinnipeds are typically sleek-bodied and barrel-shaped... of Antiquity |
| 2.6.34-rc5-2.6.34–2.6.35 | Sheep on Meth Methamphetamine Methamphetamine is a psychostimulant of the phenethylamine and amphetamine class of psychoactive drugs... |
| stable: 2.6.35.7– | Yokohama Yokohama is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second largest city in Japan by population after Tokyo and most populous municipality of Japan. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu... |
| 2.6.36-rc8–2.6.36–2.6.37–2.6.38-2.6.39 | Flesh-Eating Bats with Fangs |
| 3.0-rc1–3.0 | Sneaky Weasel |
| 3.1-rc2 | Wet Seal |
| 3.1-rc3–3.1 | Divemaster Edition |
| 3.2-rc1 | Saber-toothed Squirrel Squirrel Squirrels belong to a large family of small or medium-sized rodents called the Sciuridae. The family includes tree squirrels, ground squirrels, chipmunks, marmots , flying squirrels, and prairie dogs. Squirrels are indigenous to the Americas, Eurasia, and Africa and have been introduced to Australia... |