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Ubuntu 9 Is Jaunty Jackalope, Coming Next April

Posted by timothy on from the good-eatin'-if-you-can-catch-'em dept.

mr_3ntropy writes "Ars is reporting Mark Shuttleworth announced today that Ubuntu 9.04 will be called Jaunty Jackalope, to be released next April. It will focus on improving boot times and the convergence of desktop and web. The 8.10 release, Intrepid Ibex, is coming next month with GNOME 2.24 and will include better support for subnotebooks."

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  1. I agree.. but... by sleeponthemic · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hard for new people to take it seriously as an OS when the naming scheme is that out there.

    Stick to product numbers, futuristic ones are the best. For example: Ubuntu 2000. Fucking genius hitech name for the future. Have that name for free. I'm too busy trademarking "hurricane computing".

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    1. Re:I agree.. but... by geminidomino · · Score: 3, Funny

      Stick to product numbers, futuristic ones are the best. For example: Ubuntu 2000. Fucking genius hitech name for the future.

      Hate to tell you this, but 2000 isn't the future anymore. We just got body cavity searches to buy a cup of coffee instead of jetpacks.

    2. Re:I agree.. but... by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hate to tell you this, but 2000 isn't the future anymore. We just got body cavity searches to buy a cup of coffee instead of jetpacks.

      That would be Ubuntu 1984.

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  2. Re:Jackalope? by bonkeydcow · · Score: 5, Funny

    They do exist! I have seen the postcards.

  3. Guessing the new name is fun... by MindKata · · Score: 3, Funny

    Not sure about "Intrepid $animal". As for Jaunty Jackalope?, what a name ... I was hoping for a Jucy Jezabel. Oh well, at least they are going for Intrepid Ibex. My best guess was Incontinent Iguana. So what next?, Kinky Hangaroo and Lopsided Lobster?

    Oh well, trying to guess the new name is making waiting for each update more fun. Maybe Microsoft should try using names. I guess they could try to be different and start with Zoosporangium Zebra and work backwards.

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    1. Re:Guessing the new name is fun... by WDot · · Score: 3, Funny

      I was hoping for Jazzy $animal. I know what Jaunty means, but when hearing the sound of the word I think "jaundice." When I hear jazzy I think "awesome."

    2. Re:Guessing the new name is fun... by SeePage87 · · Score: 3, Funny

      I guess they could try to be different and start with Zoosporangium Zebra and work backwards.

      How is that different? Seems like Microsoft has been working backwards for quite some time now.

    3. Re:Guessing the new name is fun... by Chris+Burke · · Score: 4, Funny

      Not sure about "Intrepid $animal". As for Jaunty Jackalope?, what a name ... I was hoping for a Jucy Jezabel. Oh well, at least they are going for Intrepid Ibex. My best guess was Incontinent Iguana. So what next?, Kinky Hangaroo and Lopsided Lobster?

      I think the theme should go beyond just "adjective + animal starting with the same letter". There should be a theme in the adjectives, and Kinky Kangaroo should be the basis.

      Kinky Kangaroo
      Lecherous Lobster
      Masturbating Mongoose
      Naughty Naked Mole Rat
      Orgasmic Orangutan
      Penetrating Porpoise
      Queer Quail
      Randy Rabbit

      And so on. Now doesn't that kind of thematic continuity speak to quality and professionalism? People say the Ubuntu names are holding it back because they sound childish and nobody outside us geeks could recognize them. But when you say "I have Naughty Naked Mole Rat on my laptop!", people will instantly know that's the follow-on to the successful Masturbating Mongoose.

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  4. What I want to know is by 3p1ph4ny · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...what the hell are they going to do after 26 releases?

    As far as I know, there's only three animals that start with "aa", and no adjectives. Unless they're going to roll over to just "a" again, which would be lame (but more practical).

    1. Re:What I want to know is by LighterShadeOfBlack · · Score: 5, Funny

      ...what the hell are they going to do after 26 releases?

      I lay awake in bed at night wondering the same thing, cold sweat running down my face as I count down the seconds until the release of Ubuntu 17.10. Then I consider that the world is becoming increasingly unstable and fractured and I realise that there's a good chance the human race will destroy itself in a fiery hellstorm of nuclear war long before then. With this thought comes overwhelming relief and I cry myself to sleep with tears of joy that I will never have to face the terrible reality of knowing what comes after Zesty Zebra.

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    2. Re:What I want to know is by scubamage · · Score: 5, Funny

      Without a reboot, no less.

    3. Re:What I want to know is by daenris · · Score: 3, Funny

      Hopefully they'd limit themselves to grammatically correct choices. So, no to that.

    4. Re:What I want to know is by mollymoo · · Score: 5, Funny

      I lay awake in bed at night wondering the same thing, cold sweat running down my face as I count down the seconds until the release of Ubuntu 17.10. Then I consider that the world is becoming increasingly unstable and fractured and I realise that there's a good chance the human race will destroy itself in a fiery hellstorm of nuclear war long before then.

      Nuclear war? We're all gonna die tomorrow when we get turned to strangelets by the LHC. I've withdrawn all my savings and will be blowing the lot on hookers and cocaine tonight. That's what I do every Tuesday and I won't let the end of the world spoil my fun!

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    5. Re:What I want to know is by Centurix · · Score: 5, Funny

      [ucking [ruitbats

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    6. Re:What I want to know is by temcat · · Score: 5, Funny

      I would start with A again, and call the new release simply Animal Adjective.

    7. Re:What I want to know is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Anal Ass

      you mean, Difficult Donkey?

    8. Re:What I want to know is by wanderingknight · · Score: 4, Funny

      Until 2037, then?

  5. The translation of this name by martinw89 · · Score: 4, Funny

    In the PyWeek IRC room, one person found the translation for this name:

    "I'm so rich I've gone to space so I can name this whatever the fuck I feel like."

  6. Re:Why is this important? by martinw89 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because Ubuntu Christian Edition damned them off Distrowatch?

  7. Re:What happened to "I"? by somersault · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you'd bravely soldiered on to the third sentence of the summary (don't strain yourself now, remember to take a 5 minute break in between sentences), you would have found out!

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  8. Re:What about Ubuntu 10.10 by bonkeydcow · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have heard of monkeys, but what is this Mastubrating [sic] you speak of?

  9. Ubuntu's marketing department by Cro+Magnon · · Score: 4, Funny

    must have nixed "Jaunty Jackass". :(

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  10. Re:Jackalope? by geminidomino · · Score: 4, Funny

    Liar. Python doesn't do references. Use a list.

  11. Re:What about Ubuntu 10.10 by Chris+Burke · · Score: 3, Funny

    Give him a break, he was typing with one hand.

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  12. Re:Jackalope? by athakur999 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sassy Sasquatch?
    Cheeky Chucacabra?
    Moody Manbearpig?

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