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Ubuntu Hardy Heron Announced

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the limping-llama-still-to-come dept.

Jono Bacon, Community Manager for Ubuntu, has announced development on the next version of the popular Linux distribution name "Hardy Heron". "Not only will the Ubuntu community continue to do what it does best, produce an easy-to-use, reliable, free software platform, but this release will proudly wear the badge of Long Term Support (LTS) and be supported with security updates for five years on the server and three years on the desktop. We look forward to releasing the Hardy Heron in April 2008."

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  1. Re:And hurts Ubuntu by solevita · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    the Ubuntu community
    The "Ubuntu community", whoever that vague generalisation applies to, is not in your office. If you don't like the code names used for Ubuntu releases, why not use the version number? If your whole argument fails because someone else uses a different, perhaps silly, name for the software you want to install, then maybe your argument wasn't particularly strong in the first place. But you can always blame the naming for your failures...
  2. Re:WHY IS THIS SUBJECT UNDERLINED? by DrunkenTerror · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Gosh, no, it never occurred to me to try clicking on them. *rolls eyes*

    They ain't no links on my damn FireFox. What are they links to, genius? What does the status bar say when you hover on 'em? What website does it take you to? How come no other article has fake-link underlines on the subjects of every comment?

    Tell me, Random832, do you have a blog or something I could read? I bet you make entertaining dumb-ass observations like this all the time. I bet you go to the grocery store and see people eating grapes without paying for them, and then you go home and write a hand-wringing blogpost about how the rule of law is crumbling around us.

  3. Re:And hurts Ubuntu by couchslug · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Cute" = "Fscking Stupid", not just unprofessional.

    There is no level of scorn harsh enough for these fvcktarded release names. I'd like to see the people who pick them named and shamed for the damage they are doing to Linux adoption.

    Dear readers, unless you are doing childrens software where "cute" helps marketing, please avoid cutesy names for anything.
    Should you be tempted, ask a good friend to punch you in the throat until that temptation fades.

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