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Meet Ubuntu 12.10: Queer Quagga

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It’s that time of year again. Ubuntu 12.04 final is upon us and speculation has begun as to what Ubuntu +1 might be called. No, Mark Shuttleworth has not made his regulary scheduled statement announcing this forthcoming realease… yet.

Why Wait, Speculate!

It’s that time of year again. Ubuntu 12.04 final is upon us and speculation has begun as to what Ubuntu +1 might be called. No, Mark Shuttleworth has not made his regulary scheduled statement announcing this forthcoming realease… yet. Never-the-less, it is that time to have some fun with animals that start with the letter Q.

Poor Mark Shuttleworth. He should have seen this day coming. The day where he would have to comb through a bizarre list of lackluster adjectives like Queenly, Questionable or Queer. The day where he would have to debate with his marketing team the effectiveness of a product branded with strange– and in some cases, extinct– animals such as the Queensland Groper, the Quetzal and the Quokka.

If the team at Canonical researches their terms properly, they will discover a few prolific, and perhaps even pretentious sounding adjectives that can be attached to the release, such as Qualified, Quadrangular and Quintessential. It’s a shame that the last one couldn’t be saved for an LTS release. The current naming meme wan’t allow for another “Q” named release until the year 2025…

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Comments (13)

montezuma ·
Bling Shuttleworth is more corporate than that. My bet is

Quality Quail
cmost ·
Quagmiric Quelea ;-P
albinard ·
Quintessential Quadruped
tuxchick ·
Qwerty Qigong.
djohnston ·
Quick Quiche

Okay, so it's not an animal. ;-)
dinotrac ·
Quivering quahog.

Goes down easy, but you might regret it within the hour.
jezuch ·
Quagaar Queeg. [OK, not really an animal, bo who cares?]
tuxchick ·
You're close, jezuch, they'll name it for Mark Shuttleworth-- Qaptain Queeg. (The crazy captain in the Caine Mutiny for you whippersnappers.)
gus3 ·
I have that movie, on DVD. It's mesmerizing to see Bogart and MacMurray in such fine form.
lcafiero ·
Yeah, what gus3 said. It's a good one.

(Quiche isn't an animal?)

Anyway, Q will be a good one. Hope Shuttleworth can take time from his busy schedule innovating to come up with something good.
dinotrac ·
@gus3 --

I'm shocked. Shocked! That My Three Sons are gambling here.
helios ·
Thanks Dino....picture of three sets of shoes with the theme music burns through my skull now....

De-de-de-deeeeeee, de-de-de-deeeeeeee

http://tinyurl.com/42ns67v

Thanks for that
jacog ·
There is a project to bring the Quagga back from extinction by selective breeding of a certain type of zebra that contains the gene.

Maybe Shuttleworth is trying to save Ubuntu from extinction with this one. The genes are there, they just have to selectively throw out the right packages.

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