____/ Darth Chaos on Thursday 30 August 2007 08:55 : \____
> On Aug 29, 10:20 pm, John Locke <johnlocke98...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:32:26 -0700, dapunka <dapu...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >On 30 Aug, 00:09, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> Introducing the Hardy Heron
>>
>> >> ,----[ Quote ]
>> >> | I am delighted to have the pleasure of announcing the Hardy Heron
>> >> | (Ubuntu 8.04), the next version of Ubuntu that will succeed Gutsy
>> >> | Gibbon (Ubuntu 7.10, due for release in October 2007).
>> >> `----
>>
>> >>http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1017
>>
>> >Oh dear, Ubuntu do love their daft names. My present system is Feisty
>> >Fawn - like Bambi snarling and baring his fangs... I'm not going to
>> >change up to Gutsy Gibbon, my system's fine for a while longer. So
>> >when I update, it'll be to a durable wading bird.
>>
>> Damn..I was hoping for Husky Hornet..
>
> They already had a H...the Hoary Hedgehog. They need to rename the
> Warty Warthog release into "1derful 1" and the Hoary Hedgehog release
> into "Awesome Aardvark".
Warty Warthog was very bland, but it worked wonderfully well (just rebranded
Debian with some tweaks, a CLIed GUI package manager, and GNOME at the time).
I still think that Ubuntu is overhyped. H-P have just chosen Red Hat's
desktop. A lot of money was put into its development (they even paid *cough*
for codecs from Microsoft).
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