[ubuntu-uk] 11.04 Natty Narwhal

[Alan Pope]

On 17 August 2010 21:35, Jonathon Fernyhough <j.fernyhough at gmail.com> wrote:
> There was I think I was posting to a UK list. Looks like I forgot the
> huge /s tag. Sorry about that. Won't happen again. (/s and a :P)
>
> "What version of Linux are you running?" "10.04" "Oh."

We get people in #ubuntu-uk asking for help. They mostly say things like:-

"The latest one"
"8.04"
"How do I find out?"

If they're 'one of us' they might well say 'lucid' or 'gutsy'.

> Now, which of the following is more likely:
> "What version of Mac OS are you running?" "Snow Leopard" "Cool!"
> "What version of Mac OS are you running?" "10.6.4" "Cool!"
>

Isn't that because they _rely_ on the animal branding. The OSX box has
a dirty great snow leopard on the outside. I actually am typing this
on a Mac and I have to make some effort to find out what version of
OSX it is because I don't know. So it's not _quite_ the same. We brand
with numbers and use codenames during development, Apple use the
codename _as_ the brand.

Cheers,
Al.