Friday, February 20, 2009

Am I Blind

Sometimes you wonder how you simply don't see the obvious.. I'd wondered how they cook such names for every Ubuntu release. After announcing the name of 9.10 (9.04 not yet released), I got some help seeing how they come up with such names.
here's the list from the fourth release:

4. 6.06 Dapper Drake
5. 6.10 Edgy Eft
6. 7.04 Feisty Fawn
7. 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon
8. 8.04 Hardy Heron
9. 8.10 Intrepid Ibex
10. 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope
11. 9.10 Karmic Koala

See the pattern? The names are in alphabetic order from D to K. The names start with an adjective for the animal which is the second name. The releases in same year have same number and the value after decimal point is the month of release.

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