[ubuntu-uk] 11.04 Natty Narwhal

[Alan Bell]

On 17/08/10 21:07, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
>
> Easy steps to make your product fail:
>
> 1) Give it a name only the developers would understand in its proper
> context, e.g. GIMP.
> 2) ???
> 3) Profit!
<snip>
> *cough* Sorry.
> Maverick Meerkat. Advert tie-in. Simples. Was any new ground broken? I
> can't really think of any, indicator was introduced in Lucid. Oh wait,
> the window button positions. That's ground-breaking, obviously.
> Natty Narwhal. Oh come on.
>   
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spoilsport!
the Narwhal isn't as photogenic as a Meerkat certainly, but the
codenames are just codenames for the release in development, once
released it will be "Ubuntu 11.04" take a look at the Lucid desktop CD,
there is no mention of "Lucid" or "Lynx" (but if you open it up and look
inside the pocket there is a dotty Lynx image).
On a point of detail the window button positions were in Lucid, you
haven't seen everything in Maverick, I think the multi-touch stuff and
unity might qualify as somewhat ground breaking though.

Alan.