When will Ubuntu 10.10 be named?

[coolbrook]

Is there a date set for the announcement? Is it about that time?

[Post Monkeh]

my vote would go to marvelous monkeh

[undecim]

You mean the nickname?

It's been decided for a while now that it will be Lucid Lynx.

[Post Monkeh]

You mean the nickname?

It's been decided for a while now that it will be Lucid Lynx.

10.10, not 10.04

[Tibuda]

You mean the nickname?

It's been decided for a while now that it will be Lucid Lynx.

He is asking about 10.10. Lucid Lynx is 10.04.

[overdrank]

I would assume that it would be announced at The 10.10 Ubuntu Developer Summit (http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/1989)

[SonicSteve]

Is there a date set for the announcement? Is it about that time?

I can't answer your question but I hope they come up with a different naming scheme for the Year.month name. 10.10 sounds fine still. I just think that 11, 12, 13, 14 etc. is going to sound silly. It worked up to version 10, past 10 just starts loose it's appeal.

[Jesus_Valdez]

Miraculous Mandrill

[forrestcupp]

I can't answer your question but I hope they come up with a different naming scheme for the Year.month name. 10.10 sounds fine still. I just think that 11, 12, 13, 14 etc. is going to sound silly. It worked up to version 10, past 10 just starts loose it's appeal.

Why is 12.10 any worse than 10.10 or 9.10?

[SonicSteve]

Why is 12.10 any worse than 10.10 or 9.10?

It's more of a feeling than anything, some thing in-concrete that is hard to describe. It will be interesting to see what Mac OS will call its next version. Will it be Mac OS 11? I think they called it mac os X because it sounds better than mac os 10. Software versions sound OK when they are single digits, but 15 years from now will we be using Ubuntu 25.04? It just doesn't sound right. Where if you replace things like 10 with X and similar names it has a better ring. Imagine 34 years from now Ubuntu 44.04.

Yes mac has already used X but creativity isn't dead. Why did windows not keep with Numbers? Win 3, 98, 2000, then XP, Vista, then 7. They chose 7 because it sounds good. I bet the next version won't be windows 8.

[MichealH]

I heard it was mighty Mandrill...

[Nevon]

It's more of a feeling than anything, some thing in-concrete that is hard to describe.
You're probably right in that they will most likely move from the YY.MM format to something more marketable (possibly the nicknames might get a bigger role). But on the other hand, people associate high version numbers with a richness in features as well as reliability.

Personally I think it's a great convention, because it makes it so easy to know when the operating system was released. For example, the first version of Ubuntu that I had installed on my computer was Feisty Fawn. Since I know that was 7.04, I know that I started using Linux sometime during 2007. It also makes it easier to remember how long a distribution is supported. If you had Hardy (8.04) installed on the desktop, you'd instantly know that the support ends in April 2011.

As for the name of 10.10, it might be revealed during the Ubuntu Developer Summit, which is in May.

[LowSky]

Yes mac has already used X but creativity isn't dead. Why did windows not keep with Numbers? Win 3, 98, 2000, then XP, Vista, then 7. They chose 7 because it sounds good. I bet the next version won't be windows 8.

Mac might just go with 11 or XI

Windows chose 7 because its the 7th version, and yes it will be called Windows 8. Microsoft stopped the naming scheme because the names confused the general public during testing.

Also OpenSuse and Fedora are both over the 10th release hump, and I dont see them having naming issues.

[scouser73]

my vote would go to marvelous monkeh

Definitely, Ubuntu 10.10 codename Marvellous Monkeh will be released Wednesday 29th September 2010.

I predict this...perhaps :lolflag:

[alindgr1]

I was thinking Muscular Monkey or perhaps Mighty Mantis.

[Merk42]

Given the hoopla over the theme it'll be named after a butterfly:

Ubuntu OS X.X Macintosh Mimic

[magneze]

As Gnome Shell is due to debut in 10.10 how about ... Tenacious Turtle!

[SonicSteve]

Mac might just go with 11 or XI

Windows chose 7 because its the 7th version, and yes it will be called Windows 8. Microsoft stopped the naming scheme because the names confused the general public during testing.

Also OpenSuse and Fedora are both over the 10th release hump, and I dont see them having naming issues.

Are you sure that Windows will be 8? I know it's the 7th version, but 7 also sounds good. I also get the easy to understand but I just can't see Ubuntu, or windows or mac version 34, it just doesn't ring well. Windows going with version #'s is at least not confined to year monikers.

[Tibuda]

As Gnome Shell is due to debut in 10.10 how about ... Tenacious Turtle!

It is supposed to start with "M". That's the letter after "L".

[magneze]

It is supposed to start with "M". That's the letter after "L".Damn. :D

[standingwave]

You heard it here first!

[Phrea]

How about Magnificent Millipede.

[Seq]

It's more of a feeling than anything, some thing in-concrete that is hard to describe. It will be interesting to see what Mac OS will call its next version. Will it be Mac OS 11? I think they called it mac os X because it sounds better than mac os 10. You know Mac OS X is pronounced "Mac OS Ten (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_os_x)", right?


Software versions sound OK when they are single digits, but 15 years from now will we be using Ubuntu 25.04? It just doesn't sound right. Where if you replace things like 10 with X and similar names it has a better ring. Imagine 34 years from now Ubuntu 44.04.

You're confusing marketing with version naming. I could see an emphasised focus on the animal names, which are currently only really used during development time, and versions for Releases. This is not unprecedented as Apple, for instance, does the same thing with 10.6 "Snow Leopard". But they still have an incremental version number.

If Ubuntu is still around in 34 years, and still doing a six-month cycle, I don't see a problem with that version number. I'd suggest if any change were done, going full-out year makes the most sense. That isn't really required until 2100, really. And I'm not sure if Ubuntu will be doing six-month releases at that point (They don't seem to have a long-term forcast that covers this period).


Yes mac has already used X but creativity isn't dead. Why did windows not keep with Numbers? Win 3, 98, 2000, then XP, Vista, then 7. They chose 7 because it sounds good. I bet the next version won't be windows 8.

Microsoft didn't ditch versions. Windows 2000 (a marketing name) was version 5.0., XP 5.1, Vista 6.0, 7 is 6.1 (heh). They don't market them, but they didn't ditch them.

[coolbrook]

How about Magnificent Millipede.

Ha! If there was actually anything magnificent about them. I have their little brothers crawling into my house right now. I've been playing a flash version of the old 80's coin-op as a tribute.

[tilixibr]

Mighty Moose? :lolflag:

[Phrea]

Mighty Armadillo? :lolflag:

Has to start with an M, twice !.

EDIT: you changed it, it said Dancing Dolphin first ! Darn it. ;)

[fillintheblanks]

I still say Maximum Millipede

[tilixibr]

Has to start with an M, twice !.

EDIT: you changed it, it said Dancing Dolphin first ! Darn it. ;)
I should have read the thread from the beginning :lolflag:

[JDShu]

Mighty Man, it has the advantage of sounding like a superhero.

[Kenny_Strawn]

Multilegged Millipede

[oldos2er]

Mendacious Mammal

[standingwave]

but I was holding out for Militant Meerkat.

[Khakilang]

I would say Karma Chameleon.

[MichealH]

Marvelous Mandrill!

[mickey57]

**** Multitude Mess**** ;)

[Ric_NYC]

Macaca Mulatta


http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/9766/mediumm.jpg


Macaca Mulatta lives in a wide range of habitats, and shows a great deal of adaptability. Some populations live in flatlands, while others, in northern India and Pakistan, live in the Himalayas at elevations up to 3,000 m. These primates are able to aclimate to a variety of climatic extremes, from the hot, dry temperatures found in deserts, to cold winter temperatures which fall to well below the freezing point.

[JDShu]

Multilegged Millipede

LOL as opposed to the poor millipede that got all but one of its legs chopped off.

[Странник]

Mechanical Monkeys

[joeblurton]

My money's on Magic Mink. It's the only available animal that doesn't sound utterly silly. Manic Meerkat, for example... or Mendacious Mullet...

[Rasa1111]

majestic mongoose

whoever said that,
i think its a good one. lol :)