{"id":15674,"date":"2011-10-06T12:01:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T10:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=15674"},"modified":"2011-10-06T12:01:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T10:01:29","slug":"ubuntu-naming-permutations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/06\/ubuntu-naming-permutations\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu naming permutations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Even though I don’t use Ubuntu myself, I think nothing stops me from sharing the fun those guys have these days. \u00a0But first, if you are anything like me, you need a little bit of context. \u00a0Here is a wiki page<\/a> that explains Ubuntu code names and lists some of the previous ones:<\/p>\n

The official name of an Ubuntu release is “Ubuntu X.YY” with X representing the year (minus 2000) and YY representing the month of eventual release within in that year. Ubuntu’s first release, made in 2004 October (10th month) was Ubuntu 4.10. Since the actual release date is not known until it’s ready and humans tend to prefer names rather than numbers, a set of codenames are used by developers and testers during the buildup to a release<\/p>\n

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The development codename of a release takes the form “Adjective Animal”. So for example: Warty Warthog (Ubuntu 4.10), Hoary Hedgehog (Ubuntu 5.04), Breezy Badger (Ubuntu 5.10), are the first three releases of Ubuntu. In general, people refer to the release using the adjective, like “warty” or “breezy”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, now that we do have a context, here come the naming permutation from Mark Shuttleworth<\/a> – a leader of the Ubuntu community. \u00a0Choosing the release name is not easy, especially with the help of the dictionary and all those enthusiastic contributors. \u00a0Read the whole thing to get a better idea.<\/p>\n

The letter P is pretty perfect. It\u2019s also plentiful \u2013 my inbox has been rather full of suggestions \u2013 and we have options ranging from pacific to purposeful, via puckish and prudent. We\u2019ll steer clear of the posh and the poncey, much as some would revel in the Portentious Palomino or the Principled Paca, those aren\u2019t the winning names. Having spent the last six months elucidating the meaning of \u201coneiric\u201d I think it might also be worth skipping the parenthetical or paralogical options too; so sadly I had to exclude the Perspicacious Panda and Porangi Packhorse (though being an LTS, that Packhorse was a near thing).<\/p>\n

Being generally of a cheerful nature, I thought we\u2019d avoid the Predatory Panther and Primeval Possum. Neither sounds like great company for a seven year journey, really. Same goes for the Peccable Peccary, Pawky Python and Perfidious Puku. So many bullets to dodge round here!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Even though I don’t use Ubuntu myself, I think nothing stops me from sharing the fun those guys have these days. \u00a0But first, if you are anything like me, you need a little bit of context. \u00a0Here is a wiki page that explains Ubuntu code names and lists some of the previous ones: The official … Continue reading Ubuntu naming permutations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,6,62],"tags":[1228,2418,2933,1529,2393],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-15674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux","category-technology","tag-geek-culture","tag-humor","tag-mark-shuttleworth","tag-releases","tag-ubuntu-linux"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t