[ubuntu-uk] 11.04 Natty Narwhal

[Liam Proven]

On 17 August 2010 21:07, Jonathon Fernyhough <j.fernyhough at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17 August 2010 19:44, Laura Czajkowski <laura at lczajkowski.com> wrote:
>> Aloha,
>>
>> Thought folks might be interested to know that 11.04 will be the Natty
>> Narwhal http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/478
>>
>> Laura
>>
>> --
>>
>
>
> 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!
>
> *cough* Sorry.
>
> 2) Promote the product via this name (or codename).
> 3) Wonder why the general public (general ignorant audience) don't
> jump on board when they think the name sounds unprofessional or just
> plain stupid (e.g. GIMP).
> 4) Resist all urges by your community to change the name as there's
> nothing wrong with it.
>
> If you read this far, thank you. The point I think I'm trying to make
> is that Canonical seems to be wandering further and further off into
> obscure yet geeky-cool naming schemes. Let's look at them shall we?
>
> Warty Warthog. Fine. It was warty. Makes sense, warthog. Warts. Fine.
> Hoary Hedgehog. Familiar animal, hairy so mature. OK I guess.
> Breezy Badger. Easy breezy. Nice and simple. Badger is a dependable
> creature. Good name.
> Dapper Drake. Dapper, polished. Good. LTS. Drake? It's a male duck.
> Umm. They like to gang rape female ducks? Or do you mean a flying
> dragon?
> Edgy Eft. Edgy, damned right it was. WTF is an Eft?

A small newt. I thought everyone knew that.

By the way, "an eft" became "an ewt" during one of English's many
upheavals, then "an ewt" became a "a newt", in a reversal of the way
that "a nadder" became "an adder" and "a napron" became "an apron".

> Feisty Fawn. Bit musty and mouldy? Grovelling about on the floor? Oh,
> wait, you mean eager? And a deer? An eager deer?

What, you don't know what "feisty" means? Seriously?

> Gutsy Gibbon. Gutsy, fine. Strong. Gibbon, fine, intelligent, mobile,
> sociable etc.
> Hardy Heron. Hardy, strong, LTS. Good name for an LTS. Heron, patient.
> Good name.
> Intrepid Ibex. Breaking new ground, Ibex is a call back to Ubuntu
> origin. Good name.
> Jaunty Jackalope. OK, here we go. A fictional creature that's a bit
> sure of itself.
> Karmic Koala. Karmic as in it has reached nirvana? I'm not sure Karmic
> was /that/ good. Koalas eat eucalyptus; was that a package introduced?
> Elastic computing thing?
> Lucid Lynx. Clear-minded wildcat. Umm. Not exactly a dependable
> creature for an LTS, then.
> 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.
>
> From WordNet (r) 2.0 :
>
>  dapper
>       adj : marked by smartness in dress and manners; "a dapper young
>             man"; "a jaunty red hat" [syn: dashing, jaunty, natty,
>              raffish, rakish, smart, spiffy, snappy, spruce]
>
> Dapper, Jaunty, Natty? Well, at least that's the codenames for R and S
> sorted (I'm going to bet now on Raffish and Spiffy).
>
> From WordNet (r) 2.0 :
>
>  narwhal
>       n : small arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk
>           [syn: narwal, narwhale, Monodon monoceros]
>
> Monodon. Monoceros. Those are good names. Sound powerful, hints of
> rhinoceros (and Ubuntu again). Oh, wait, we've already had M in 10.10.
> Raffish Rhinoceros for 13.04, anyone? Nah, rhinoceros is too well
> known. It would have to be something like Raffish Roach (that's right,
> it's a fish, but people will think it's a cockroach. Perfect!).

So you are not sure what a narwhal is, but you think "monoceros" is acceptable?

> Enough ranting. I'll leave you with this:
>
> From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
>  narwhal
>    it is called also sea unicorn, unicorn fish,
>       and unicorn whale.

You're just having a bit of a rant, aren't you?

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