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Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Drawing Near

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the millions-rejoicing-in-the-street dept.

daria42 writes "Ubuntu developers are finalizing preparations for the release of the next version — dubbed Feisty Fawn — of the popular Linux distribution in mid-April. Overnight, Ubuntu developer Tollef Fog Heen announced Ubuntu's main software repository had been frozen — with no changes allowed to the code — as developers got ready to issue a fifth major test version ("Herd 5") of the next version of Ubuntu."

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  1. Ob YCST by Bastard+of+Subhumani · · Score: 0, Troll

    A bargain compared to paying $699 to SCO!

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  2. Huh? by British · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ubuntu version names are (now) alphabetical, so Dapper Drake preceded Edgy Eft, which precedes Feisty Fawn. The names are always Adjective Animal ('eft' is another name for a newt).

    With the headline and the above sentence, I can now see why Linux isn't ready for the mass market with such bizarre wording. :)

    Perhaps plain, boring version numbers would be better. The goofy names are just asking the writers of Hot Shots! to come up with some joke like the phonetics they used.

  3. Re:I'm using feisty since herd 1 by Hoi+Polloi · · Score: 0, Troll

    I knew critizing Linux would get a flamebait mod! Slashdot, you are so predictable.

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