Un peu d'histoire...

Heu... de mémoire (arf !)

Debian was begun in August 1993 by Ian Murdock

Pour l'annonce officielle :

WOODY - Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (a.k.a. Woody) was released on 19th of July, 2002 : http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/(...)
(Woody 3.0r1a du 16 décembre 2002)
POTATO : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (a.k.a. Potato) was released on August 14th, 2000. The latest point release of Debian 2.2 is 2.2r7, released on July 13th, 2002 : http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/(...)
SLINK - Le gel de Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 « Slink » aura lieu vendredi 16 octobre 1998 à minuit, GMT donc début 1999 mais la date exacte je ne trouve pas : http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19981014.fr.html(...)
HAM - probablement ici : http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ch-releases.html(...) mais... 404 (au moins pas de verisign dans le coin ,o)

Pour la petite histoire : http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/project-history.t(...)

Debian 3.0 _woody_ (19 July 2002): Named for the main character in the movie: "woody" the cowboy
Debian 2.2 _Potato_ (15 August 2000): Named for "Mr Potato "head" in the movie.
Debian 2.1 _Slink_ (March 9th, 1999): Named for the slinky-dog in the movie.
Debian 2.0 _Hamm_ (July 24th, 1998): Named for the piggy-bank in the movie.
Debian 1.3 _Bo_ (June 5th, 1997): Named for Bo Peep, the shepherdess.
Debian 1.2 _Rex_ (December 12th, 1996): Named for the plastic dinosaur in the movie.
Debian 1.1 _Buzz_ (June 17th, 1996): This was the first Debian release with a code name.
(avant c'était du flan... oudu moins sans nom de code ,o))
...
Debian 0.01 through 0.90 (August-December 1993)

En résumé,
| D( woody, potato ) | < 2 ans
| D( potato, slink ) | < 2 ans
| D( slink, ham ) | < 2 ans
pareil pour les précédentes.

Et puis de toutes façons, quand on aime.... on ne compte pas.. ;o)

PS : http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-ftparchives.html#s-sourceforcodena(...)
* hamm was the piggy bank,
* slink (Slinky Dog) was the toy dog,
* potato was, of course, Mr. Potato,
* woody was the cowboy.