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Coming up with placeholder names for upcoming Ubuntu releases is an exercise in celebration of our rock’s biodiversity. It therefore carries great responsibility. Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth, though, seems to relish this challenge. Last week, he announced the code name of the next Ubuntu LTS (long term) release, which is scheduled for next April. Using its time-honored adjective-animal naming convention, Canonical has arrived at the name “Precise Pangolin” for Ubuntu 12.04.
“It’s a perennial pleasure to pick pertinent and/or pithy placeholder names for Ubuntu release,” wrote Shuttleworth on his site. “I’ve had diverse feedback, shall we say. The letter P is pretty perfect. It’s also plentiful – my inbox has been rather full of suggestions – and we have options ranging from pacific to purposeful, via puckish and prudent.”
Principled Paca, Perspicacious Panda and Porangi Packhorse were some of the other names in contention. But Canonical settled for Precise Pangolin as it wanted “something phonetic, something plausible and something peaceful too.”
“12.04 is an LTS. So we want it to be tough and long-lasting, reliable, solid as a rock and well defended,” he continued” It’s also going to be the face of Ubuntu for large deployments for a long time, so we want it to have no loose ends, we want it to be coherent, neat.”
“Balancing all of those options, I think we have just the right mix in our designated mascot for 12.04 LTS. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Precise Pangolin.”
Anyways, Precise Pangolin is still a fair way from release. In the meantime, you can look forward to the release of Oneiric Ocelot, which is scheduled for Thursday.
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maxeeemum
October 10, 2011 at 5:28pm
Another crazy name! It's too bad Ubuntu has lost its way and doesn't listen to its users. With the switch to Unity and other changes I don't use it anymore.
I now use Linux Mint. Anyone who is looking to change or try linux I recommend Linux Mint
Engelsstaub
October 10, 2011 at 6:46am
Ubuntu has some great things going for it. I wish they had used the GNOME 3 UI instead of Unity. Unity's not bad but GNOME 3 is slick as hell IMO.
If you like GNOME 3 check out Fedora. Fedora doesn't have as much software in its repositories as Ubuntu, but it's not that hard to figure out and use. A little "sudo yum upgrade" from time to time will keep your shit up to date and keep you in the Terminal doing something useful to maintain your system ;)
SleepyCatChris
October 10, 2011 at 1:14pm
Unity is just the default, Gnome is still installed. 11.10 will have Gnome 3.
Beta 2 notes:
"GNOME got updated to current unstable version (3.1.92) on its way to GNOME 3.2"
Oops. Nevermind. They're actually removing Gnome Shell from 11.10 as a fallback from Unity. Gnome 3 is still there, but only Unity is available as the interface. That sucks.
(And still, rich-text disappears in the actual post. Everything above "Oops." should have strikethrough. Looks fine in the preview. What's the point of having the option for HTML formatting if it doesn't work?)
kixofmyg0t
October 10, 2011 at 6:10am
Someone watched "V for Vendetta" way too many times.
I gotta a better one. How about "Pretty Please"? As in pretty please will Ubuntu finally work out of the box and NOT reqiure literal HOURS spent in terminal trying to get wi-fi working?
