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- williamdyer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+58"Longhorn" ISN'T gay????
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -12/+60WTF is Vista???
- lagrange, on 10/12/2007, -9/+57I'm waiting for Horny Hacker.
- ihate2regist, on 10/12/2007, -8/+50Giggity Goo?
- Phocion55, on 10/12/2007, -4/+39Why get caught up in names?
It's the stuff in the changelog that matters. - shakin, on 10/12/2007, -4/+35It's named Ubuntu 7.10. Gutsy Gibbon is a development codename. Ubuntu codenames aren't any worse than Windows codenames like Janus, Chicago, Memphis, Whistler, Longhorn, etc. And it's along the same lines as OS X's Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, etc.
Ubuntu's codenames tend to be a comment about what that Ubuntu release is going to accomplish. Warty was a rough and ugly first release. Hoary was mature and wise (compared to Warty). Breezy was simple and easy. Dapper was polished. Edgy had lots of leading edge features. Feisty is a courageous leap forward with restricted drivers and a compositing window manager. Gutsy looks like it'll take some chances like Edgy did. - rad67, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29@frost9999:
It has a version-number AND a build-date.
Breezy Badger: 5.10 (october of 2005)
Dapper Drake: 6.06 (june of 2006)
Edgy Eft: 6.10 (october of 2006)
Feist Fawn: 7.04 (april of 2007)
Gutsy Gibbon: 7.10 (october of 2007)
See the trend here? - 350Zed, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28I believe you may be stuck at Dorky Doesntgetlaid, if you're that sex-starved.
- chubbstar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25no... wheres "C"?
- zachf, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25The next release better be "Hungry Hippo"...
- caliform, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24I think it's an interesting name - at least I prefer it to Feisty, as 'Gutsy' doesn't give me all sorts of dubious images when I am Google Imaging the name of the distro :). Glossy Gnu would have been fun too, though.
- bobothn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21for that mater who goes around calling their operating system operating system?Seriously i thought mac people were suposed to be creative.
Guy 1-Well this is our tenth version of our operating system any ideas for a name?
Guy 2-I know how about operating system 10
Guy 1-Brilliant - BradleyBo, on 10/12/2007, -7/+25Yeah, well, there are plenty of people who can't decide whether to say Vist-a or Veest-a...
- bobothn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18@chubbstar
the first 2 didn't go in alphabetical order you had Hoary Hedgehog 5.04 then breezy badger i am willing you bet they will skip h and go to i just so there are not 2 h names
@newslang
man i feel stupid i never noticed that 7.04 =4th month in 07 - starsky51, on 10/12/2007, -5/+20cheeky cu**.. sorry.
- adila01, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18I just hope that Linux MCE and Beryl will be included by default. This will make Linux a far more appealing option for newbies.
- NerdzCo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16I like gutsy. It makes it seem powerful whereas Glossy makes seem like it is hoping on the Mac/Vista bandwagon.
- sigsegfalt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14My guess is that the majority of Ubuntu's target user base doesn't know or care if they are using "Feisty Fawn" or "Gutsy Gibbon" or whatever. They just know that it was easier to get installed and set up the way they want it than just about any Linux distro they've ever tried in the past.
- oxdeltaxo, on 10/12/2007, -8/+21HACK THE GIBBON!!!!
- geoken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12"Longhorn is the name of a great bar in Whistler, Canada."
Is it a gay bar? No matter what you say Longhorn sounds totally gay. - andyrobo60, on 10/12/2007, -8/+20For more info on gibbons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbon - 350Zed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Agreed, as long as it can be installed *without* the pretty-it-up options so I can still run it on my older boxes.
- hyperfocal, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Microsoft already has a Hungry Hippo called Vista.
- krewemaynard, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Someone doesn't know their alphabet...
- Intrepion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10uh-oh! what comes after Ubuntu 17.04 Zealous Zebra? maybe they'll start 2-letter scheming like on spreadsheets!
Ubuntu 17.10 Admirably Appealing Antelope - shakin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11When Mark Shuttleworth says Gutsy will have a new flavour he means there will be an option to download a version of Ubuntu that only has free software, while the standard desktop release will keep the restricted driver manager and some other closed source programs. This seems like a good compromise for some people who won't use any non-free software.
- threemonkeydust, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12I know someone who was going around calling it Vispa
- mrsteveman1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9That name is reserved for users.
- blumer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11It took me a few minutes to realize I'd misread it, but with Ubuntu's history of code names, I can't imagine I'm the only one who read "Gusty Gibbon" and had the thought, "Why would I want a farting monkey on my computer?"
- mazza558, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8People said the same about Google.
Back then, people were still wondering WTF Google was. - dasunst3r, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13I wanted "Giggly Gopher": http://www.beigebinary.com/what-if-linux-distros-were-women
- strabes, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10In about 11-12 years.
- mbrane, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7If you run Windows, provided by "Monkey Boy" Steve Balmer, that's precisely what you have now.
- strabes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Hoary was the 2nd release of ubuntu. Edgy is the current release and feisty is the one that is being released in April.
- Chickenlip, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Feisty is already like that ... You have you manually enable Compiz and/or Beryl ... And they are both included in the distribution I believe, or if they arent, they were a simple apt-get away.
- Iandefor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"@chubbstar
the first 2 didn't go in alphabetical order you had Hoary Hedgehog 5.04 then breezy badger i am willing you bet they will skip h and go to i just so there are not 2 h names"
The first 3, actually.
Warty Warthog -> Hoary Hedgehod -> Breezy Badger. - Sharkee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"Some folks would say that any monkey can install Ubuntu (and sadly, other folks would say that many have), but the Gibbon will take easy installation to a whole new level, with work on an unattended-installation infrastructure in Ubiquity that makes it trivial to roll out Ubuntu desktops across an organization while getting on with other, more complicated stuff such as Windows service pack installations on legacy desktops."
nice sneaky little stab there - Peepsalot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6frost9999: Just call it Ubuntu 7.10 then.
- GMorgan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5That's really just referring to GNewSense or whatever it is called. The art of breaking your distro for the sake of purity.
I'm surprised this isn't LTS. I thought they were coming every 18 months. At least is shows Ubuntu is willing to be flexible, Dapper still runs fine for most things corporate so really a new LTS would be a waste of money.
@williamdyer
There is no need for Firmwares at all. As Theo de Raadt has said repeatedly. This sort of thing should be hard coded into the device. - Bonzodog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Wow, with yesterdays ubuntu.com link to the feisty shipit site, and this one, digg has effectively taken down almost the entire ubuntu.com domain. we are checking, but it appears that the repos, mailing lists, shipit, and main site are all almost dead or very slow. And launchpad is extremely slow.
- Ek0nomik, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5These names are cute, halik is full of it. I'll take cute fury names over brute masculine names anyday.
- imfm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Well, I see that I'll be calling this one "7.10". ;)
- williamdyer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4What do you mean "worry?" There is nothing so damn secret in wifi firmware that it can't be open-sourced. Heck, whoever does it first will sell more chips, which is how they make money.
- MikeEnIke, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Hoary Hedgehog was like version 4. Feisty Fawn is the current beta, and Edgy Eft is the current 6.10 stable release.
- bmartin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Honestly, I switched to Ubuntu when Vista came out. The only time I heard that expression was "Hasta la vista, baby!" It scared me enough to make me jump product lines.
- joelinuxguru, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Was Gassy Goose taken already?
Come on people. If Linux is ever to be adopted by corporations, cut out this crap. Explaining that to exec that our business relies on something called 'Fedora' was bad enough. Mental imagery of Joey from Degrassi Jr. High aren't reassuring when thinking about your super expensive infrastructure.
I'm not going to wait for Ubuntu 19.10: Sassy Sanjaya to be released. Later Ubuntu. - sirhomer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think it's a handsome name. Bring it on Gibbon!
- newslang, on 10/12/2007, -13/+15@rad67
What's next...Horny Hamster?
I don't like the code names or the way they do the version numbers, by release date rather than changes they make to the OS...but I still use ubuntu. - generalloy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"1) Firefox likes to keep the copyright on its logo(which is fair enough), so debian removes that logo and renamed firefox ice weasel so its now completly free."
I understand that you're probably just making things concise for the sake of digg here, so for anyone who's a little more interested in the issue: the actual problem is that you can't modify and then redistribute it; the actual copyright isn't a problem. Debian also puts the GNU documentation under "non-free".. And the binary drivers aren't included by default, it's just a bit more user-friendly to download them.-- otherwise kernel developers would send GPL violation notices, as what happened to a live cd distro called 'kororaa' that included the nVidia drivers. ATI's drivers also are pretty much ***** because you can't run compiz or beryl with them easily, so the open source drivers win there. - veracon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Fiesty Fawn?"
Of course not. FEISTY Fawn. -
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