Most of the Linux 2.6 kernels include a name in the Makefile of their source trees, which can be found in the git repository.
| Kernel Version | Name |
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| –2.6.1 | none |
| 2.6.2–2.6.3–2.6.4– | Feisty Dunnart |
| 2.6.5–2.6.6–2.6.7– 2.6.8–2.6.9 | Zonked Quokka |
| 2.6.10-rc1–2.6.10–2.6.11–2.6.12– 2.6.13– | Woozy Numbat |
| 2.6.14-rc1–2.6.14– | Affluent Albatross |
| 2.6.15-rc6–2.6.15–2.6.16– | Sliding Snow Leopard |
| 2.6.17-rc5 | Lordi Rules (Eurovision 2006) |
| 2.6.17-rc6–2.6.17– | Crazed Snow-Weasel |
| 2.6.18–2.6.19– | Avast! A bilge rat! (TLAPD 2006) |
| stable 2.6.18.x since .28-rc2– | Stable Pinguin |
| 2.6.20-rc2–2.6.20– | Homicidal Dwarf Hamster |
| 2.6.21-rc4–2.6.21– | Nocturnal Monster Puppy |
| 2.6.22-rc3–2.6.22-rc4 | Jeff Thinks I Should Change This, But To What? |
| 2.6.22-rc5–2.6.22— | Holy Dancing Manatees, Batman! |
| 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 2007) |
| stable 2.6.24.x since .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 |
| stable 2.6.27.x since .3 | Trembling tortoise |
| 2.6.28-rc1–2.6.28-rc6 | Killer Bat of Doom |
| 2.6.28-rc7–2.6.28–2.6.29-rc8 | Erotic Pickled Herring |
| 2.6.29 | Temporary Tasmanian Devil |
| 2.6.30-rc4–2.6.30-rc6 | Vindictive Armadillo |
| 2.6.30-rc7– | Man-Eating Seals of Antiquity |
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