[ubuntu-us-ut] Ubuntu 9.04 Codenamed "Jaunty Jackalope"

[Christer Edwards]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Charles Curley
<charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 08:51:09AM -0600, Christer Edwards wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Aaron Toponce <atoponce at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> > http://tinyurl.com/jaunty-announce
>> >
>> > I personally like the name.  However, with that said, I generally only
>> > use the release versions when talking about Ubuntu.  The codenames are
>> > getting too hard to keep track of what was good and what was bad.
>> >
>> > Anywho, thoughts? Comments?
>> > --
>>
>> I've thought many of the recent names have been weird but they grow on
>> me.  Just like changing your nick from atoponce to encryptz to
>> eightyeight.. sounds weird at first but it grows on you.
>
> If they grow on you, then perhaps "klinging kudzu"?
>
> "Hungry Hippo" for 8.04 has some
> justification. http://goodbyemicrosoft.net/comment.php?comment.news.222.
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If Ubuntu is "hungry hippo" based on needing 384M what would you call
Vista that requires 4G?

...I guess the fat lady has sung in that camp.