[ubuntu-uk] 11.04 Natty Narwhal

[John Matthews]

On 18/08/10 22:07, David King wrote:
> With a name like that, how long before the media call it the NUTTY Narwhal?
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> Or the NUTTY KNOW-ALL?
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> Worse name ever for an Ubuntu release.
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> Calling any product Natty is a recipe for disaster.
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> They could have chosen something more positive, such as Nimble Nightingale.
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> David King
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> Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
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>> On 17 August 2010 19:44, Laura Czajkowski<laura at lczajkowski.com>  wrote:
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>>> 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:
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>> 1) Give it a name only the developers would understand in its proper
>> context, e.g. GIMP.
>> 2) ???
>> 3) Profit!
>>
>> *cough* Sorry.
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>> 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.
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>> 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?
>> Feisty Fawn. Bit musty and mouldy? Grovelling about on the floor? Oh,
>> wait, you mean eager? And a deer? An eager deer?
>> 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 :
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>>    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]
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>> 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).
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>> > From WordNet (r) 2.0 :
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>>    narwhal
>>         n : small arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk
>>             [syn: narwal, narwhale, Monodon monoceros]
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>> 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!).
>>
>> Enough ranting. I'll leave you with this:
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>> > From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
>>    narwhal
>>      it is called also sea unicorn, unicorn fish,
>>         and unicorn whale.
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>> Jonathon
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>> Oh, if 13.04 is Raffish Roach do I get a prize?
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Aww who cares, to me as long as there are updates that help to make 
things work, I really dont care.

John

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