On 18/08/10 22:07, David King wrote: > With a name like that, how long before the media call it the NUTTY Narwhal? > > Or the NUTTY KNOW-ALL? > > > Worse name ever for an Ubuntu release. > > Calling any product Natty is a recipe for disaster. > > > They could have chosen something more positive, such as Nimble Nightingale. > > > David King > > > > Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: > >> On 17 August 2010 19:44, Laura Czajkowski<la...@lczajkowski.com> wrote: >> >> >>> Aloha, >>> >>> Thought folks might be interested to know that 11.04 will be the Natty >>> Narwhal http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/478 >>> >>> Laura >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> >> >> Easy steps to make your product fail: >> >> 1) Give it a name only the developers would understand in its proper >> context, e.g. GIMP. >> 2) ??? >> 3) Profit! >> >> *cough* Sorry. >> >> 2) Promote the product via this name (or codename). >> 3) Wonder why the general public (general ignorant audience) don't >> jump on board when they think the name sounds unprofessional or just >> plain stupid (e.g. GIMP). >> 4) Resist all urges by your community to change the name as there's >> nothing wrong with it. >> >> If you read this far, thank you. The point I think I'm trying to make >> is that Canonical seems to be wandering further and further off into >> obscure yet geeky-cool naming schemes. Let's look at them shall we? >> >> Warty Warthog. Fine. It was warty. Makes sense, warthog. Warts. Fine. >> Hoary Hedgehog. Familiar animal, hairy so mature. OK I guess. >> Breezy Badger. Easy breezy. Nice and simple. Badger is a dependable >> creature. Good name. >> Dapper Drake. Dapper, polished. Good. LTS. Drake? It's a male duck. >> Umm. They like to gang rape female ducks? Or do you mean a flying >> dragon? >> Edgy Eft. Edgy, damned right it was. WTF is an Eft? >> Feisty Fawn. Bit musty and mouldy? Grovelling about on the floor? Oh, >> wait, you mean eager? And a deer? An eager deer? >> Gutsy Gibbon. Gutsy, fine. Strong. Gibbon, fine, intelligent, mobile, >> sociable etc. >> Hardy Heron. Hardy, strong, LTS. Good name for an LTS. Heron, patient. >> Good name. >> Intrepid Ibex. Breaking new ground, Ibex is a call back to Ubuntu >> origin. Good name. >> Jaunty Jackalope. OK, here we go. A fictional creature that's a bit >> sure of itself. >> Karmic Koala. Karmic as in it has reached nirvana? I'm not sure Karmic >> was /that/ good. Koalas eat eucalyptus; was that a package introduced? >> Elastic computing thing? >> Lucid Lynx. Clear-minded wildcat. Umm. Not exactly a dependable >> creature for an LTS, then. >> Maverick Meerkat. Advert tie-in. Simples. Was any new ground broken? I >> can't really think of any, indicator was introduced in Lucid. Oh wait, >> the window button positions. That's ground-breaking, obviously. >> Natty Narwhal. Oh come on. >> >> > From WordNet (r) 2.0 : >> >> dapper >> adj : marked by smartness in dress and manners; "a dapper young >> man"; "a jaunty red hat" [syn: dashing, jaunty, natty, >> raffish, rakish, smart, spiffy, snappy, spruce] >> >> Dapper, Jaunty, Natty? Well, at least that's the codenames for R and S >> sorted (I'm going to bet now on Raffish and Spiffy). >> >> > From WordNet (r) 2.0 : >> >> narwhal >> n : small arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk >> [syn: narwal, narwhale, Monodon monoceros] >> >> Monodon. Monoceros. Those are good names. Sound powerful, hints of >> rhinoceros (and Ubuntu again). Oh, wait, we've already had M in 10.10. >> Raffish Rhinoceros for 13.04, anyone? Nah, rhinoceros is too well >> known. It would have to be something like Raffish Roach (that's right, >> it's a fish, but people will think it's a cockroach. Perfect!). >> >> Enough ranting. I'll leave you with this: >> >> > From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 : >> narwhal >> it is called also sea unicorn, unicorn fish, >> and unicorn whale. >> >> >> >> Jonathon >> >> Oh, if 13.04 is Raffish Roach do I get a prize? >> >> >> >
Aww who cares, to me as long as there are updates that help to make things work, I really dont care. John -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
