The opposite of marketing

[Cyrus Jones]

Same here. I always tell newcomers to Ubuntu that these names are
development codenames, like Windows Longhorn, and instead refer to the
version numbers.

On 11/3/07, Oystein Viggen <oysteivi at tihlde.org> wrote:
>
> * ["David Gerard"]
>
> > Does anyone think before giving Ubuntu releases names?
> >
> > e.g. the fact that people are *already* calling 8.04 ... Hairy Hardon.
>
> Horny Hedgehog was funnier ;)
>
> Like Vadim, I usually refer to the distributions by number, especially
> when discussing them with people who don't closely follow Ubuntu.  After
> I explain the clever "year.month" bit, they can relate to the numbers
> without being confused by a bunch of silly names.
>
> Øystein
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