[ubuntu-uk] Jaunty Jackalope - codenames

[Paul Sutton]

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following on from the thread on past codenames for ubuntu

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames

gives a list of previous names of releases - pasted (badly i know) below

 Adjective
	

Animal
	

Version
	

Description

Warty
	

Warthog
	

4.10
	

The first "hog"

Hoary
	

Hedgehog
	

5.04
	

Meaning "covered with hair", or "mature/old/wise"

Breezy
	

Badger
	

5.10
	

was going to be "Bendy Badger"... :)

Dapper
	

Drake
	

6.06
	

Polished, with 5 years of support!

Edgy
	

Eft
	

6.10
	

Fire up the crackpipes! (?!)

Feisty
	

Fawn
	

7.04
	

Courage and restlessness

Gutsy
	

Gibbon
	

7.10
	

Go Ape!

Hardy
	

Heron
	

8.04
	

Hardy Heron with 5 years of support! Most people wanted Happy/Hungry
Hippo :(

Intrepid
	

Ibex
	

8.10
	

due October 2008

Jaunty
	

Jackalope
	

9.04
	

Releasing in April 2009

Karmic
	

Koala
	

9.10
	

Released in October 2009


On the other hand,  I have been trying to work out how the latest
version of windows came to be called windows 7

windows 3.1 - 3
windows 95 - 4
windows 98 - 5
windows ME - 6
Windows XP - 7
Windows Vista - 8
Windows 7 - 9 ?

if you take the above list, which is i think all the versions aimed at
home users,  windows 7 should really be windows 9, if you take each of
the above to be major releases.

so Windows 98SE is not listed, but would still be version 5,

Any ideas.
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