On the subject of naming the Dapper successor

Matthew East mdke at ubuntu.com
Tue Feb 14 14:36:38 GMT 2006


On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 15:31 +0100, Carsten Lange wrote:
> Am 14.02.2006, 14:27 Uhr, schrieb John Pinner <john at linuxemporium.co.uk>:
> 
> > Having lurked at the outer edges of this list, I thought it time to
> > intrude on the matter of naming future releases. Why? I think that the
> > Ubuntu community needs to consider whether it wishes to be taken
> > seriously outside the GNU/Linux world.
> 
> Donald Duck sells good outside GNU/Linux world. Why not Dapper Drake or  
> any other weird animal?

Donald Duck is a cartoon duck. Dapper Drake is a highly sophisticated,
professional computer operating system. The analogy is a difficult one,
to say the least.

I'm inclined to agree with John that more obscure codenames would work
well.

Matt
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