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Ubuntu 9 Is Jaunty Jackalope, Coming Next April
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."
They do exist! I have seen the postcards.
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."
...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.
Spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, and stupid comments are intentional.
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!
which is totally what she said
Without a reboot, no less.
must have nixed "Jaunty Jackass". :(
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
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 I've withdrawn all my savings and will be blowing the lot on hookers and cocaine tonight.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!
Chernobyl 'not a wildlife haven' - BBC News
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Task Mangler
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.
The enemies of Democracy are
I would start with A again, and call the new release simply Animal Adjective.
Liar. Python doesn't do references. Use a list.
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.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Until 2037, then?