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Say what you will about Canonical, their whimsical naming scheme has helped expand my vocabulary of both obscure African mammals and little-used adjectives.
by simplicio 10y ago
Say what you will about Canonical, their whimsical naming scheme has helped expand my vocabulary of both obscure African mammals and little-used adjectives.
- bad_user 10y ago17.10 might switch to flowers and "Apologetic Anemone" is a proposed name :-)
- colordrops 10y agoAnemone is also a sea animal.
- Redoubts 10y agoI was hoping for Aachen Aardvark
- zzz157 10y agoAbused Albatross? ;[ Afflicted Ass?
- tovmeod 10y agothose are the best suggestions yet, they should put that to a vote
- neoeldex 10y agoWhat is going to happen when they land at Z? The end of Ubuntu as we know it? :P
- cstuder 10y agohttp://askubuntu.com/questions/113194/what-will-happen-when-the-code-names-of-the-ubuntu-releases-get-to-z http://askubuntu.com/questions/113194/what-will-happen-when-...
- Karunamon 10y agoInteresting question, and closed as "not constructive". Typical.
- gkya 10y agoIf someone some day decides to commit a pedantocide, the first thing he'll do will be to compile a list of stack exchange mods. Silly joke aside, this sort of release scheme is really confusing to me, lts and stable branches with normal version numbers are way more simple. Besides, these uncommon words are easily forgotten.
- Karunamon 10y agoThey use both, though. The word gets used in various places in packaging schemes, the number gets used everywhere it matters.
- el_duderino 10y agohttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames