Re:history (Score 1)

I'm not sure about the rationales for the other
names, but RHL 6.0's distribution, named Hedwig
is named after Harry Potter's owl (his "familiar")
in "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone",
which is presently sitting at #3 on the New York
Times best seller list. I know because I'm reading it to my 8-year old, and I'm adminstering
a web site for the Dawson College Computer Science
Department that runs RHL 6.0 on a server called
obelix.dawsoncollege.qc.ca, named after the character Obelix in the Asterix series by Goscinny
and Uderzo (very popular in French-speaking
Quebec).