Crazy Distro Names - The Dapper Drake

I've always found linux distribution names amusing.
  • Currently 0/5
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Rating: 0 /5( 0 votes cast)
If you look at some of the names that they've been called: Shrike Hoary Breezy Woody The Ubuntu developers aren't going to be outdone and have christened the next release "The Dapper Drake" - how you put that into your sources.list is another matter Full text of the announcement below:
In keeping with tradition, it's time to name the next+1 release of Ubuntu. Ubuntu 6.04(ish) will be special, because as a community we are going to commit to supporting it for 3 years on the desktop, and 5 years on the server. In Montreal (October 30-Nov 6, all hackers welcome, companies send your developers, chip in and define it 'cos we all have to live with it, details at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBelowZero etc) we will be figuring out what changes are needed to the release process to ensure we can deliver on that commitment. We're likely to want to be a bit more conservative in the feature goals, and freeze a little longer. It's 6.04 that will be up against Windows Vista, so let's make it a zinger and give folks a real choice. The 6.04 release will be the culmination of 2 years hard work, with Warty, Hoary and Breezy having set the style and the pace. We want it to represent the fruit of that labour - it brings to a close this first major cycle of development for Ubuntu. It will be a release that people can plan for, participate in and build solutions on top of. It will get even more polish than we put into Breezy, so we think it deserves a name that reflects that polish. And so, after much deliberation, it has been decided that 6.04 will be known during development as: The Dapper Drake I'm sure the Ubuntu Artwork Team will have a field day ;-) As usual, the "dapper" repository will be opened after the release of Breezy. Till then, let's focus all of our energy on the upcoming release! Mark
OpenID accepted here Learn more about OpenID
Powered by Movable Type 4.23-en
TwitterCounter for @micheleneylon

About this Entry

This page contains a single entry by Michele Neylon published on September 14, 2005 12:25 PM.

Slap the village idiot - Transferring domains was the previous entry in this blog.

Creative Ireland Facelift is the next entry in this blog.

Find recent content on the main index or look in the archives to find all content.