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

BJ Cardon bj.cardon at gmail.com
Tue Sep 9 16:39:02 BST 2008


Christer Edwards wrote:
> 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.
>>      
> --
>
> 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.
>
>    
What about OSX that uses that much Virtual Memory just to run Finder? ;)

BJ



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