Comments on: A month from now. Prepare !

By: Pelo

Pelo — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:51:04 +0000

in honor of the current events in Australia ….

Krispy Kangoroo

By: Joachim

Joachim — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:57:45 +0000

How about Kinky Kenguru? =D

By: Stefano Forenza

Stefano Forenza — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:30:24 +0000

As the other developer of Rapache’s nickname is Killer Kiwi I am hoping for that

By: Alecs Jonson

Alecs Jonson — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:27:24 +0000

Kindred Kitty?

By: Stefano Forenza

Stefano Forenza — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:14:19 +0000

@McKinlay: yes and no. They did, but they had to take distance from Vista as much as possible. And there could be other reasons: the codename for Windows 7 was Windows 7. As they (trying to avoid previous mistakes) pushed it to the public very soon, they may have wanted to stick with the name already known to the public.

(@Andrea) On the other side, the Ubuntu version numbering is confusing itself. I am not sure you can remember what 7.04 or 7.10 features were. Perhaps would be easier to think in terms of Feisty / Gusty than to 7.04/7.10.

The real source of confusion, as you point out, is the fast release cycle, which has its pros BTW.

By: Alistair McKinlay

Alistair McKinlay — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:34:56 +0000

@Stefano

Microsoft have come back to numbering though. Not that we should do what Microsoft do anyways. But yeah.

By: Reload

Reload — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:38:44 +0000

Ciao Stefano, il problema è che dopo uno po si diventa scemi con un nome ogni 6 mesi. Almeno io faccio confusione e gia è tanto se mi ricordo l’attuale nome di ubuntu :=) Apple e ms ogni quanto cacciano fuori i loro OS?
Ad ogni modo sono piccolezze

The “problem” is you can go mad with names changing every 6 months. I cant remember past versions’ names of ubuntu and i can hardly remember current version’s one :=) How long is ms and apple release cycle?
Btw this is not so important

By: Stefano Forenza

Stefano Forenza — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:03:46 +0000

Aaron, I just read your post about it and let me tell you:

# I think that will never happen.
# I think that you’re plain wrong on your reason as well. Even Microsoft left the numbering thing in favor to plain names for Windows (not to speak about Apple)
# I also think noone will follow your suggestion but maybe a restricted circle of followers.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 12:16:45 +0000

What do I want? I want people to start naming it after it’s version number. Although I’ve been with Ubuntu since 4.10 “Warty Warthog”, and I can produce exactly what version number corresponds with what codename most people can’t. I want to start seeing people call it after the version number. It should be “Ubuntu 8.04″, “Ubuntu 8.10″, “Ubuntu 9.04″, “Ubuntu 9.10″, and so forth. Honestly, who really cares about the codename?

By: Alan Pope

Alan Pope — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 11:15:29 +0000

The name has already been set, it’s just not been announced yet.