> > Except for the very unfortunate codename "Mavericks" it sounds very > promising... supposedly the name came from a Surf Beach near Half Moon > Bay, possibly suggesting "a new wave" in OS... despite apparently being > very similar to Mountain Lion, maybe it *does* portend a "new wave". One > has to wonder "did they just run out of Big Cat names?" in the same way > that they are running out of decimal digits (10.9) or does this signify a > significant change in direction (gearing up for a big change in 11 and > naming after surf beaches for the next generation?).
Have they done Serval yet? Then again, maybe it is not a big enough cat, or maybe they want to reserve it for an Apple server OS, or perhaps they thought it tread too far into Ubuntu's 'animals with funny names' theme (although they went with 'Salamander' for this month's release, as of April). Not being a Mac user, I had not thought about the digits running out. Unless they are explicitly under a decimal numbering scheme, could they not do 10.10, 10.11, and so on? I think Windows had something codenamed Mavericks, because I have an old CRT with a coat of arms screen-burned into it, bearing the second-to-most-recent Microsoft logo and the word 'Mavericks', and some other indecipherable words. -Arlo James Barnes
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