From: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name>
To: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>, Zhang Boyang <zhangboyang.id@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-next@vger.kernel.org, song@kernel.org, wei.liu@kernel.org,
jszhang@kernel.org, chenhuacai@kernel.org, guoren@kernel.org,
xiang@kernel.org, chao@kernel.org, ming.lei@redhat.com,
longman@redhat.com, wqu@suse.com, yhs@fb.com, haoluo@google.com,
decui@microsoft.com, siyanteng@loongson.cn, dyoung@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RESEND] Please consider name next Linux release "I love Linux" (Re: Linux 5.19)
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2022 23:22:19 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f76c7bbc-1253-bdda-4d56-8e9185e6f29a@xen0n.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220812023950.GF373960@MiWiFi-R3L-srv>
On 8/12/22 10:39, Baoquan He wrote:
> Hi Boyang,
>
> On 08/11/22 at 10:02pm, Zhang Boyang wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 2022/8/1 05:43, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>> (*) I'll likely call it 6.0 since I'm starting to worry about getting
>>> confused by big numbers again.
>> Could you please consider name the next Linux release (5.20 or 6.0) "I love
>> linux" ? The number "5.20" is a wordplay in Chinese, which means "I love
>> you" [1], thus "Linux 5.20" can be read as "I love Linux" in Chinese.
>>
>> Even if next kernel version is 6.0, I think it's probably a good idea for
>> both Chinese-speakers and non-Chinese speakers to express our love to Linux
>> Kernel.
> Interesting idea, LOL.
>
> Yes, 520 means 'I love you' in chinese since it has the similar pronunciation
> with '我爱你'. I even don't remember since when May 20th becomes another
> holiday similar to Valentine's day in China. While I have complicated feeling
> about 520. It means on each May 20th, I also need prepare gift for my wife. I
> am not a romantic person, preparing gift to lover is always a torture to me.
> So almost each May 20th day, Valentine's day, double seventh festival which is
> a traditional Valentine's day, I will become nervous, and it ends up
> with a satisfactory gift, or a bunch of flower and a digital red envelope with
> 520¥ and then complainment and blame in next two weeks.
>
> So, for naming next release as '5.20', I will vote for it w/o hesitance. No need
> to prepare gift, and can express our love to Linux kernel, it sounds
> awesome.
>
> Meanwhile, I would remind people to take it easy. Whether the suggestion
> is accepted or not, it doesn't impact the fact that linux may have
> become part of our life, not just our work, considering many kernel developers
> are workoing form home. But if you have boasted to your girlfriend
> or wife, and want to take this as a gift to her, you should try harder to
> convince Linus.
Woah. This is some of the larger-scale "cultural export" I've ever seen,
and probably the first time on LKML. I'd remember the few dry laughs
when I tried to explain the "Superb Owl" meme to my teammates,
unfamiliar with (US) English memes in general, so I could even
sympathize with those of you not knowing Chinese Internet memes...
One thing is for sure, if the next Linux version is to be kept 5.20 and
codenamed "Linux I love you" or something like that, it would certainly
make headlines on Chinese tech news sites for a while, more specifically
both after rc1 and the final release; but anyway, as Baoquan already
pointed out, our collective love for Linux and the open-source ideals
behind the whole thing is not going anywhere, no matter what the
Makefile says. (You may find it useful to make your partner happy using
the 520/521 meme too, if applicable; but from my own experience, better
not bring up Linux if your partner is not interested in that topic!)
(And, pun semi-intended for that "bringing up". ;-)
--
WANG "xen0n" Xuerui
Linux/LoongArch mailing list: https://lore.kernel.org/loongarch/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-14 15:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-31 21:43 Linux 5.19 Linus Torvalds
2022-08-01 12:47 ` Build regressions/improvements in v5.19 Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-08-02 9:14 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-08-01 16:52 ` Linux 5.19 Tony Luck
2022-08-01 16:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-08-05 17:00 ` Please consider Linux 5.20 because it means "I love Linux" in Chinese (Re: Linux 5.19) Zhang Boyang
2022-08-07 17:21 ` David Laight
2022-08-09 6:03 ` ext2/zram issue [was: Linux 5.19] Jiri Slaby
2022-08-09 7:59 ` Jiri Slaby
2022-08-09 8:12 ` Jiri Slaby
2022-08-09 8:43 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-08-09 9:11 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-08-09 9:20 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-08-09 10:20 ` Dmitry Rokosov
2022-08-09 11:53 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-08-09 13:15 ` Aleksey Romanov
2022-08-09 13:29 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-08-10 7:06 ` [PATCH] Revert "zram: remove double compression logic" Jiri Slaby
2022-08-10 7:14 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-08-09 12:35 ` ext2/zram issue [was: Linux 5.19] Jiri Slaby
2022-08-09 12:45 ` Jiri Slaby
2022-08-09 12:57 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-08-09 13:07 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-08-09 9:12 ` Lukas Czerner
2022-08-09 9:15 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-08-09 9:53 ` Lukas Czerner
[not found] ` <20220830214626.26544-1-charlie39@cock.li>
2022-08-31 7:55 ` Jiri Slaby
2022-08-11 14:02 ` [RESEND] Please consider name next Linux release "I love Linux" (Re: Linux 5.19) Zhang Boyang
2022-08-12 2:39 ` Baoquan He
2022-08-12 3:28 ` Huacai Chen
2022-08-12 6:31 ` Gao Xiang
2022-08-12 8:22 ` YanTeng Si
2022-08-13 17:17 ` Zhang Boyang
2022-08-14 15:22 ` WANG Xuerui [this message]
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