What are all these names in ubuntu?

[taqdagger407]

What are all these names about?

They have something to do with compiz or compiz fusion.

Beryl
Karmic Koala
Docky
Hardy Heron
Gutsy Gibbon
XGL
AWN
Conky
Gentoo
Exaile
Feisty
emesene
puccio
Gnome
Affinity
Wine
Emerald

[macem29]

edit: hmmm

[ilovelinux33467]

Some of those names are ubuntu releases, some are applications and some are to do with compiz

[Rasa1111]

lol, nice spam maidabrook, bum. :lol:

lol OP, only one or two of them have to do with compiz.

Beryl, theme engine
Karmic Koala, ubuntu 9.10
Docky, dock for Ubuntu/linux
Hardy Heron, Ubuntu ubuntu 8.04
Gutsy Gibbon, ubuntu 7.10
XGL:?:
AWN, dock for ubuntu/linux, (the best!) ol
Conky, on screen systems monitor
Gentoo, linux distro
Exaile, music player for Ubuntu/linux
Feisty, Ubuntu 7.04
emesene:?:
puccio:?:
Gnome, desktop environment
Affinity :?:
Wine, to run windows apps in ubuntu
Emerald, theme engine/compiz

[ankspo71]

And emesene is like amsn...
which are both Linux alternatives to the MS chat clients that were used in Windows (such as Windows Live Messenger, etc)