Ubuntu zoo preps for new arrival

Unassuming Ubuntu has announced a new clever creature is coming to its alliterative aggregation of Linux distros. The Jaunty Jackalope is the neat nomenclature for the 9.04 version of Ubuntu Linux, with 9.04 being, in the Ubuntu Y.MM scheme of distro versions, 2009 April. The Jackalope is a mythical cross between a jack …

[Paul]

K

I assume it will have to begin with K so I would guess...

Kinky Koala

[Marvin the Martian]

I don't know 9.10's name

But 26 versions from now will be Hungry Hippo. Because Cheers is out of fashion (else it'd be Hungry Heifer).

[Andy Miller]

Alphabetic Alliteration

Gutsy Gibbon, Hardy Heron, Jaunty Jackalope; can I see a pattern?

Could be Kinky Kangaroo next. The big question is what follows Zonked Zebra?

[Dom]

Something beginning with K, of course.

Kunning Kudu?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ubuntu 9.10

Like duh! It is obvious. Kool Koala!

[Alastair Smith]

Alphabetical

So clearly the release following Jaunty Jackalope will be Kinky Kingfisher.

[Jerome]

A is for Apple...

Either Mr. Mellor has a little trouble with his alphabet, or he's not quite grokked the Ubuntu naming scheme yet. The 9.10 release is rather more likely to be Killer Kingfisher or Kickass Kestrel than anything to do with a pheasant or a groundhog. Personally, I'm looking forward to hacking Zetetic Zebra onto my 5G iPhone so I can play Duke Nukem Forever on it.

[Anonymous Coward]

9.10 name...

One thing's for sure - it'll be based on the letter K.

Killer Kangaroo's probably too obvious.

[Robert Dorrian]

Next Creature

It will begin will begin with a K.

Killer Koala?

Kind kangaroo?

Konfuzzled Kat?

:p

[Anonymous Coward]

Keen Kingfisher?

Kinky Klingon? Knowledgeable Kite?

There aren't many good combinations of adjectives and animals for K - but then J looks to have been a tricky one.

As always, better driver support would be nice for the new version.

[Didier Trosset]

Names for 9.10 will start with K!

Following Ubuntu rules, the names for version 9.10 will begin with K. Not english native, I only could think of koala or kitty for the animal name (NZ kiwi bird maybe?). But plenty of good stuff with them: Killer Kitty, Kooky Koala, Knobby Koala, Kinky Kitty, Karateka Koala, Kingsize Koala. Pick yours ...

[Jonathan Brazil]

Ubuntu 9.10

Given the obvious pleasure derived from the woeful use of gratuitous alliteration in Ubuntu releases, surely it would be apt if 9.10 was to be called the "Choking Chicken".

[Christos Georgiou]

Re: Alphabetic Alliteration

// The big question is what follows Zonked Zebra?

Spreadsheet column notation:

Aahing Aardvark.

[Tom]

Nubnutsu 9.10

I'd like to see it called the "Kinky Kinkajou", isn't it.

[Anonymous Coward]

First sighting

> Shuttleworth raises the prospect of Ubuntu becoming a much stronger competitor to Windows and Mac OS in 2009, with several million consumer devices, from netbook to desktop PC running it.

Is he therefore the winner in the annual race to be the first to say '[CurrentYear+1] will be the year of desktop linux'?

[frymaster]

I predict...

Kooky Koala

[Francis Fish]

Todally arf tahpic

I recommend the Jackalope short, which I think is on one of the Shrek DVD's.

Bound, bound, bound and rebound.

Ah yes.

[Alex Cooper]

Name

My vote goes to Kung-Fu Kitten :)

[Matt Bradley]

Krusty Klown

^^^

Or maybe "Krappy Kookaburra"

I really wish they'd stop with this stupid naming scheme.

I guess that it'll be followed by "Lesbian Lemming" or something...

[zebthecat]

for insectivores

kosher katydid

[Jamie]

Ubuntu 9.10

I nominate the name Busty Beaver for 9.10.

It has a nice catchy name and it will also help appeal to all the geeks out there who want girlfriends but are afraid of girls.

Before anyone jumps on it 9.11 or 10.0 will be called Lusty Lynx. Then they could use Paris as an icon for the menu button.

[Harry Sheppard]

+1 for Kickass Kestrel

No real comment, just as title :-D

[Anonymous Coward]

You heard it here first.

It's going to be Keen Koala. I guarantee it.

[Narlaquin]

15.10 was inspired by Linus

That should be the W*nking Walrus release that Mr Torvalds alluded to when describing Diggers. I assume it's Winking.

[Anonymous Coward]

Whatever happened to "I" ?

just wondered ....

[Chris Officer]

name from experience

Following my recent experiences with Ubuntu after upgrading to Hardy Heron they should swiftly move forward to a version called Wonky Wireless.

After weeks of dicking about I gave up and installed Fedora.

[Anonymous Coward]

KK(K?)

Given its African naming conventions I'd assume Kudu would be involved, Knowledgeable Kudu perhaps, or can't we cope with a silent K....

[ChessGeek]

K

Karma Khameleon.

[Tony]

DukeNukem Forever

That's optimisism for you, that DNF will have been released by then ;)

[Robert Browning]

Klepto obviously.

Surely to steal users from Windows it would have to be a Klepto Kinkajou.

Paris because she enjoys frolicking with her Kinky Kinkajou.

[David Hicks]

@Naming

Is it necessarily going to be a K naming thing?

The current release is Hardy Heron, but does nobody remember Hoary Hedgehog? Or Warty Warthog?

From their version page -

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames

it looks like they missed out on C as well. Crappy Carp anyone?

[Outcast]

6 months

Already..

Wow, that seemed to go real fast

Each distro brings new functionality. Great stuff.

[Anonymous Coward]

King Kong next of course

as everyone will want to shoot it down (for a change).

[Len Goddard]

Not necessarily alphabetical

After all, we have already had two 'H' releases (Hardy Heron and Hoary Hedgehog) and a 'W' (Warty Warthog). Equally, Alliterative Animal and Candid Cat are notable by their absence.

[phix8]

Huh

If only the new version will be able to work with PC's with raid configured dual hard drives. Hardy Heron isn't but I basically made my laptop unusable before I realised this.

[Nic Brough]

I reckon they'll go with...

Keeping up with the memes - something like Killah Kitteh. To be followed by Lolloping Lolcat

I like the kitty pictures, but I hate the spelling - it's just as cute/funny in English, so Mine's the one with the * cheeseburger * in the pocket

[Gianni Straniero]

Alphabetical alliterations

When did it begin? We've already had the out-of-sequence "Warty Warthog" and "Hoary Hedgehog", haven't we?

This might provide some inspiration:

http://www.bust-ed.co.uk/acatalog/KPDAnimalPosterL.jpg

I anticipate some modest celebration at The Register when we reach the letter "V"

[Colin Morris]

Jackass?

Were they stuck for animals beginning with 'J' or something? Why make up a (as far as we are aware) mythical creature?

Why not 'Jaunty Jackass'? Does that make the jokes a bit too easy if the release goes 'tits up'? Or maybe it would put people off installing it in the first place for probably obvious reasons?!

[William Towle]

Re: Keen Kingfisher

AC3> but then J looks to have been a tricky one

Not sure I was all that easy either!

@Paul, yes - K indeed. Code name/number rules are detailed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu, which drops readily out of a Google search with the previous release names in it.

My money's on kyphotic kinkajou ... nah, just kidding ;)

[Hein Kruger]

K

hmm, I wonder if that means 9.10 will be a KDE only release. Although by that logic I guess 7.10 should have been GNOME only...

[Joseph Haig]

@Jerome

Sorry, but Duke Nukem Forever will not be ready in time for your 5G iPhone ten-finger touch with telepathy control, but it will be out soon!

[Anonymous Coward]

Pretty obvious...

Krappy Koala

[BOBSta]

Q?

I can't wait to see what Shuts comes up with for 12.10!

NB: That'll be Q________ Q________

All bets are currently on "Quick" for the first word.

[Jon Green]

African special 'K'

The Ubuntu naming convention features animals found in Africa, so I'm afraid the Kinky Koala will just have to keep its predilections to itself...

Dom's Kudu is probably the most likely candidate, although Kob has a decent chance, Kipunji (a monkey, seems like the only one-word 'K' that isn't an antelope) would be fun if a little obscure, and Klipspringer probably gets ruled out on ugliness of name alone.

[TeeCee]

Krusty the Klown?

To be immediately followed by Litigious Lawyers of course.

Tantalising Tux for obvious reasons.

[alistair millington]

Have your say

Names can be voted for and suggested you know.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames

[Darren]

What about...

Kolonic Kestrel!!

[The Power Of Greyskull]

Looking forward to...

I've said it before, but I'm looking forward to Spunky Spermwhale.

[Chris]

@Jerome

If you think we'll have DNF before they run out of letters then I think you'll be saddened.

[paulc]

Grumpy Groundhog...

got used ages ago... and supposedly represents the current CVS builds...

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames

[Jim]

I'm waiting for..

Zesty Zebra.

Might take a stab at Poke'n Paris

I know, I'm a late adopter.

[Gordon Stretch]

Hard to make it catchy for the X X release ...

Xenophobic Xoloitzquintle?

[jimbarter]

Knowing Kodiak

...maybe...

[David Given]

Obvious names

The release following Zealous Zebra, will, of course, be [alculating [obra; shortly followed by \/iolent \/ulture.

[Anonymous Coward]

Krappy KDE

Any chance that 9.10 will have an improved Kubuntu with some focus on getting a KDE 4.x working well? Until then, I'll be sticking with Opensuse and their imaginative 11.x numbering conventions.

[Matt]

King size Haddock

Perhaps I'm missing the point?

Two other things while I'm here:

The RAID comment: That's because your laptop isn't doing hardware RAID it's using a driver to do RAID which may only be available for Windows.

Comment on Linux 'nerds' being afraid of girls: I've been married for twenty years, they've got good reason to be afraid of girls, I know I am!

[Anonymous Coward]

@Whatever happened to "I" ?

Did you not read the article then? You don't have to look too hard to find it.

[Charles]

Re: Alphabetic Alliteration

The 8.10 "I" is due next month: Intrepid Ibix, I think it's called.

As for what happens after the 26th distribution (which would make it about 13 years since it first started), I would imagine that (like an alphabetic insulting game), you simply roll over and start again at A, only using new names this time.

[Martin Owens]

Other fixes

>> I really wish they'd stop with this stupid naming scheme.

What 'Ubuntu 8.10' is too hard? the 'Intrepid Ibex' name is not an offical release name, it's a developer nick name and unless your involved in development you need not use it. Although I see a lot of people do like these names as their more fun than 'Vista' or 'Tiger'.

>> what happened to 'I'

It was used for 8.10 out next month aka 'Intrepid Ibex'; Can't wait to see all the new features.

[Daniel Voyce]

K eh?

Kunting Kanionical?

Hmmm wouldnt be a good marketing campaign really would it?

[Wolf]

A serious guess, for a change... :)

Kindly Kinkajou

Though I do like Kickass Kestrel. :) Maybe Kingly Kestrel? Is the Kestrel found in Africa at all? Jackolopes certainly aren't!

[Jerome]

@ Jon Green

There's plenty of kingfishers and kestrels in Africa, so no need to resort to klipspringers - there's hope for Kickass Kestrel yet.

[A J Stiles]

Re: Whatever happened to "I" ?

Everybody knows you're supposed to go straight from H to J, to avoid mistaking an I for a 1 or an L. Except that they are going to be calling the next release Intrepid Ibex, so there goes that rule .....

"Warty Warthog" was the first ever Ubuntu release -- "warts and all". Grumpy Groundhog is to Ubuntu what Sid is to Debian: the bleeding-edge version, built from the latest sources. It just took them awhile to get the idea of moving sequentially through the alphabet.

Phix8 -- most so-called "RAID" cards are not true RAID (managed by a BIOS extension and appearing to the OS as a single physical drive) but implement RAID in software, using a binary-only (and often Windows-only) driver. Linux's native "md" software RAID is much faster than most of these, and has the benefit of Source Code availability. Besides which, anyone who would trust software they hadn't seen the innards of with kernel privileges, deserves to lose data.

[Toastan Buttar]

Not Shrek

The 'Jackalope short' (Boundin') was on before The Incredibles - a Pixar movie.

http://www.pixar.com/shorts/bdn/theater/short_480.html

[Paul Ryan]

@ BOBSta

For Q, there's always the Quagga, an extinct relation of the zebra.

[James Condron]

P..

I can't wait for version whatever-the-fuck-counting-is-not-a-string-point-at-this-time-of-the-night which will begin with a 'P'

Obviously the animal will be Penguin for the obvious linux reasons, maybe we'll see a hairy chested Tux with a Ron Jeremy 'tasche.

Porno Penguin

Though the extreme pornography connotations.. hmm, going across US borders could be fun

[Duncan Hare]

Kingly Kudu

Kingly Kudu

[Anonymous Coward]

stupid naming scheme isnt just Ubuntu

hey, Ubuntu wasnt the first with silly names

Maybe I'm just sad but hasnt anyone else been following the silly

names that Linux kernels are given? Look at the Makefile

of your Linux source and about 7 lines down will be the kernels

silly name

2.6.14 was Affluent Albatross

2.6.12 was Woozy Numbat

2.6.23 Arr Matey! A Hairy Bilge Rat! - hmmm, thats over the top

2.6.25 Funky Weasel is Jiggy wit it

so Ubuntu has a lot of catching up to do!

[malcolm]

As a hardy user....

As a user of HH (3.5.10, not 4.1.x) i must admit it find the naming slightly ... foolish, but - if you stop to think, the first word is the important one, Feisty, Gutsy, Hardy, Intrepid, they all have strength-type connotations.

We need it - to overcome the stagnation that is Windows.

[kain preacher]

KK(K?)

Dear Mr AC. I hope you are not implying that they name it KKK or create an acronym that will cause it to be called KKK. Such a name would never sell in the US. If you were to put such a product on US stores, the store would be looted ans burned down. Look up Klu Klux Klan

[JJ Jackalope]

"silly" release names

I also recommend the short video Boundin' which is about a Jackalope and is on The Incredibles DVD. My wife asked about the silly release names and I asked her what kind of luck she has doing a web search for problems related to the Microsoft ".Net" software. I suggested she consider how easy it is to do a web search for "Hardy Heron" and "nVidia driver". She was enlightened.

[Anonymous Coward]

Kickass Kestrel ++

Nice

[Michael Dunn]

Q @Paul Ryan and Roger Laborde

Yes, Quirky Quagga seems a good enough Q-name

[sc]

@ Kickass Kestrel

Opera's codenames for their browser versions include Kestrel -- explanation here: http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/show.dml/759403 -- so if that means the next major Ubuntu release will include Opera, I'm all for it. :-)