Ubuntu Hardy Heron Announced

Jono Bacon, Community Manager for Ubuntu, has announced development on the next version of the popular Linux distribution name "Hardy Heron". "Not only will the Ubuntu community continue to do what it does best, produce an easy-to-use, reliable, free software platform, but this release will proudly wear the badge of Long Term Support (LTS) and be supported with security updates for five years on the server and three years on the desktop. We look forward to releasing the Hardy Heron in April 2008."

I guess they were scared of copyright issues...

[The Orange Mage]

...because I would have loved to see a Hungry Hippo release.

Kinda dirty?

[kidcharles]

I've got a dirty mind, but this name conjures up images of a sex-crazed bird terrorizing his native wetlands.

Runner Up

[Anonymous Coward]

So much for Ubuntu "Horny Homo". Just kidding, I'll still call it that.

Re:Kinda dirty?

[Anonymous Coward]

"Hardy" doesn't mean "hard".

Or, for all you "Look at my 1337 hello.c!" dweebs, "hardy" != "hard".

Spoonerish

[minginqunt]

Ubuntu Hairy Hardo... I mean, er, Hardy Heron, was announced today to much polite coughing.

Re:Kinda dirty?

[bazorg]

well I was hoping that the "H" release would be Horny ______

Re:I guess they were scared of copyright issues...

[Kenshin]

That's reserved for the next version of Windows.

Re:Kinda dirty?

[kidcharles]

Well, "hardy" does not literally mean "hard," but it sounds like perhaps a nickname about a heron with a constant erec...wait, why am I explaining myself to a cranky, humorless AC?

More bad news!

[Anonymous Coward]

No sooner does Yahoo report that worldwide illegal drug use isn't growing for the first time since drug prohibition started producing illegal drug use in the mid 19th century [yahoo.com], then slashdot reports that Ubuntu Hardy Heroin is Announced!

Damned drug smuggling penguins...

Nah

[Anonymous Coward]

I think I'll hold out for "Incontinent Iguana."

Re:I guess they were scared of copyright issues...

[ArcherB]

Meh. We'll still call it that :). But what's next? Ignoble Iguana?

Bleeding Beaver, Timid TubeSnake, Leaping Lemming...

Re:Kinda dirty?

[Anonymous Coward]

Now I'll start calling myself Cranky Coward!

Re:Nifty Names

[SpeedyDX]

If copyright was not an issue, I'd like to see Xenophic Xenu.

Re:Kinda dirty?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm sure most people will end up calling it "Horny Heron" at some point. I'm sure...

O'Reilly Books?

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

It seems that these releases are targeted for distinctive Victorian-period engravings.

Re:I guess they were scared of copyright issues...

[paeanblack]

As opposed to a Spoonerism of Hairy Hard-on?

Re:I guess they were scared of copyright issues...

[Khaed]

No way, the L release should be Llama. Lovable Llama.

Picture it: A Llama in a leisure suit.

ObMrGarrison

[sharkey]

Bleeding Beaver

I just don't trust anything that bleeds for 5 days and doesn't die.

Re:I guess they were scared of copyright issues...

[Oktober Sunset]

And how did you feel, being denied these hungry, hungry hippos?

This about....

[RockoTDF]

....sums it up

http://xkcd.com/178/ [xkcd.com]

Re:Runner Up

[howlingmadhowie]

someone was there before you: http://gaybuntu.com/ [gaybuntu.com]

Re:And hurts Ubuntu

[toleraen]

I dunno, FreeBSD is pretty decent from what I hear.

Re:And hurts Ubuntu

[Anonymous Coward]

If a "professional" IT department is going to choose software based on who has the best name, they're already gored in the posterior by a longhorn [fws.gov] .

There, fixed it for you.

Re:And hurts Ubuntu

[Anonymous Coward]

When you need to convince a boss that installing Ubuntu on office computers is the way to go, you'd need a more professional sounding name. "Windows XP" or "BeOS 5" sounds fine. But "Ubuntu Hardy Heron" does not.

Is that the same boss that laughed at you when you told him that his server needed more "RAM"?

"There there, ACS Solver, we'll get you all the RAM you need, Mary get me the local farm, ACS Solver wants more rams."

Re:ObMrGarrison

[ArcherB]

Bleeding Beaver

I just don't trust anything that bleeds for 5 days and doesn't die.

It does have a 28 day release cycle.

How great...

[Pecisk]

Article is about that finally another Ubuntu LTS is comming and everyone and his/her dog bitching how silly Ubuntu code names are. Not about bugs, not about how to help to solve them, but about FUCKIN FREAKIN code names!

If you choose software just by code names, you are completely lost. And if you thinking that word "Hard" is embarrassing, you definitely have too less sex, and never have thought what "Longhorn" actually can mean.

(ooh, there goes my karma)

In a mean time, click here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heron [wikipedia.org] to see man with...ohhh, it is just bird. Nevermind.

LTS

[Tribbin]

Hardy Heron: Me support you long time.

Re:I guess they were scared of copyright issues...

[jefu]

the L release should be Llama. Lovable Llama. ... A llama in a leisure suit.

A post that somehow makes this poem from Ogden Nash inevitable, but perhaps this is a good reason to imagine the lovable llama in pajamas (risking a possible salacious interpretation) :

The one-l lama,
He's a priest.
The two-l llama,
He's a beast.
And I will bet
A silk pajama
There isn't any
Three-l lllama.*

*The author's attention has been called to a type of conflagration known as a three-alarmer. Pooh.

I fear Ubuntu might have trouble developing names

[jollyreaper]

Allow me to submit a few they could choose from in the future.

Irritable Iguana
Jocular Jellyfish
Konstipated Kangaroo
Llustful Llama
Moody Moonbat
Naughty Nautilus
Onomatopoeic Ocelot
Pervy Penguin
Quizzical Quetzalcoatl (we can use mythological beasties if BSD can use daemons)
Randy Rhino
Secret Squirrel
Truculent Tapir
Unctuous Ungulate
Vituperative Vole
Woeful Walrus
Xenophobic Xenu (posted here previously, I like)
Yearnful Yak
Zoophilic Zebra

Re:And hurts Ubuntu

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't think the name is the problem. Your IT department is clearly staffed by twats.

Re:ObMrGarrison

[nschubach]

It's coming just as soon as they finish putting in -1:Misandry and my newly coined -2:Misnerdiny

Re:Kinda dirty?

[haeger]

I'm sure most people will end up calling it "Horny Heron" at some point. I'm sure...

Hey, that's my nickname [wikipedia.org].

 

.haeger

Re:I guess they were scared of copyright issues...

[DiamondGeezer]

Lets hope Ubuntu get bought out before they get to 'X'

Re:And hurts Ubuntu

[StikyPad]

Yeah, I'm sure Symantec wouldn't have any problems if they renamed their product to CockBlocker Deluxe.

A good name won't necessarily win, but a bad name will always lose.

Re:I guess they were scared of copyright issues...

[EdBear69]

I'm waiting for Busty Bunny...

Re:ObMrGarrison

[aichpvee]

Oh no! 28 - 5 = 23. And as anyone can tell you, 5 is nothing but 2 + 3. The combined ASCII values for "hardyheron" equal 1076. int(1076/23) = 46. 46 / 2 = 23!

Re:Kinda dirty?

[Cranky Coward]

Too late...

Re:Nifty Names

[naChoZ]

As for me, I'm looking forward to what they come up with for the letter X, and I'd like to be the first to suggest Xanthic Xerbus.

Sounds appropriate to me. It certainly seems as if Piers Anthony is in charge of Ubuntu's naming scheme.

Re:Wireless Support + Beryl

[Almahtar]

I can't tell you how many PC users have watched over my shoulder as I used Beryl and said "Wow... looks like Vista is worth the switch afterall, that's amazing."