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I really think it's time Ubuntu ditches the bizarre animal names. This one is going to be barely pronounceable for most of the world. 12.10 would suffice
by dchuk 14y ago
I really think it's time Ubuntu ditches the bizarre animal names. This one is going to be barely pronounceable for most of the world. 12.10 would suffice
- drcube 14y agoThey're almost at the end of the alphabet. What are they going to do next? They won't stop until "Zebra" though.
- ngokevin 14y agoStart over with Pokemon, obviously.
- wmf 14y agoUnicode?
- shardling 14y agoThey've been avoiding mainstream animals lately. My guess is the Zonure[1], since it is South African and looks awesome. Although if they continue the trend of increasingly hard to pronounce names they might go with Zyzzyva. [1] http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4033/4447517348_9bf8d8b2a6.jpg http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4033/4447517348_9bf8d8b2a6.jp...
- jl6 14y agoThey might get away with Aardvark, Excel-style...
- gchpaco 14y ago12.10 is the official name for the actually released OS. The animal name is the code word for the thing that will become 12.10 when it's done. Things get a little confused sometimes in e.g. apt repositories but the official stuff is all quite clear on the distinction.
- YokoZar 14y agoIn my 7+ years as an Ubuntu developer, I have yet to see a news article or forum post about a release that didn't somewhere spawn a discussion about adjective animal names. Frankly, I think it generates considerable free buzz. Everyone's always talking about shuttleworthian adjectives and obscure animals. My one point of contention, and I've brought this up with Mark personally, is that he needs to announce the name of the next release sooner. Or at least the adjective code name, as it's relevant for things like scripts and other tools, and once we start to freeze things we need to retarget stuff to the next (+1) release. It's quite silly for any of that work to delay for a reason as lame as wanting to unveil the adjective in a future quirky blog post. Would you believe we actually had to build an abstraction layer in launchpad for release names so we can have things like the "R release" rather than just using the adjective directly?
- Evbn 14y agoRabid Release-manager Silly Shuttleworth
- stickfigure 14y agoPersonally I'm looking forward to a Randy Rhinoceros in six months.
- Jach 14y ago> barely pronounceable Pronounceable correctly, maybe. ("Quantal" is easy, but the first time I read it I pronounced "quetzal" like "pretzel" with a 'qw' instead of 'pr' and I will likely continue to do so even though it's technically wrong.)
- creatio 14y agoI thinks it's pronounced as 'kwantal'. I think it's easy enough to read, maybe it depends on your mother tongue (or 2, 3 or 4th).