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[Posted April 23, 2014 by ris]

Ubuntu's Trusty Tahr has been released and that means it's time for a new development branch. Mark Shuttleworth has announced the name of the next Ubuntu release. "So bring your upstanding best to the table – or the forum – or the mailing list – and let’s make something amazing. Something unified and upright, something about which we can be universally proud. And since we’re getting that once-every-two-years chance to make fresh starts and dream unconstrained dreams about what the future should look like, we may as well go all out and give it a dreamlike name. Let’s get going on the utopic unicorn."

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Posted Apr 23, 2014 21:05 UTC (Wed) by ovitters (guest, #27950) [Link]

Nice name for the systemd version :-P

But nice plans. It doesn't really mention it, but thought this would be the Unity 8 version. Meaning: no more dependencies on anything GNOME (though not amazed if it takes a bit more than 14.10 to fully switch).

"time to walk a little uphill and, thereby, upstream" :-D

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Posted Apr 24, 2014 2:21 UTC (Thu) by okusi (guest, #96501) [Link] (2 responses)

utopic unicorn ... good grief!

but whatever ... i'm in!

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Posted Apr 24, 2014 3:59 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (1 responses)

Still waiting for Prancing Pony...

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Posted Apr 24, 2014 6:08 UTC (Thu) by gowen (guest, #23914) [Link]

Still no sign of it...

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Posted Apr 24, 2014 3:34 UTC (Thu) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link] (10 responses)

Is this the first Ubuntu release named after an animal that doesn't actually exist?

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Posted Apr 24, 2014 3:35 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (2 responses)

Are you sure unicorns don't exist? :-)

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Posted Apr 24, 2014 4:31 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Only invisible pink unicorns exist. Obviously.

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Posted Apr 24, 2014 10:08 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Hope they don't: <http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/09/equoid>. (Note: more than a little disturbing, though I suspect almost every commenter here has already read it!)

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Posted Apr 24, 2014 6:51 UTC (Thu) by kigurai (guest, #85475) [Link]

Nope. 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope.

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Posted Apr 24, 2014 7:27 UTC (Thu) by AutoStatic (guest, #71722) [Link] (1 responses)

No, Ubuntu 9.04 was named after a rabbit with horns (Jackalope).

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Posted Apr 24, 2014 9:52 UTC (Thu) by k3ninho (subscriber, #50375) [Link]

People like to argue if the Jackalope exists; it's pretty reasonable that rabbits with Shope Papilloma Virus[1] inspired the myth. Whether or not cancer-virus-infected rabbits are Jackalopes then becomes the point of contention.

1: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shope_papilloma_virus

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Posted Apr 24, 2014 11:50 UTC (Thu) by xnox (guest, #63320) [Link] (3 responses)

Unicorns, more commonly nowadays known as Rhinos, totally exist =)

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Posted Apr 26, 2014 17:53 UTC (Sat) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link] (1 responses)

Most rhinos have two to three horns. But I guess you mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis).

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Posted Apr 26, 2014 17:56 UTC (Sat) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]

Being from India, I'll accept that.

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Posted Apr 26, 2014 22:28 UTC (Sat) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

What about a quadricorn[1]?

[1]http://imgur.com/gallery/qkL8lAf

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Posted Apr 24, 2014 12:43 UTC (Thu) by jimbo (subscriber, #6689) [Link]

Some suggestions:- Uncouth Uakari? Urbane Umbrella bird? -- Jimbo

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Posted Apr 24, 2014 22:28 UTC (Thu) by leifbk (guest, #35665) [Link] (4 responses)

I'm wondering what will come after Zany Zebra.

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Posted Apr 25, 2014 12:07 UTC (Fri) by gdt (subscriber, #6284) [Link] (1 responses)

Well according to ASCII: [racketed ][pple. I'm assuming bugs in support for the MOS6502 will be fixed by then and the name will celebrate a release for the Apple ][. It will include yet another vision for Unity, this time aimed at 280×192 "HiRes" screens.

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Posted Apr 27, 2014 22:59 UTC (Sun) by rmano (guest, #49886) [Link]

Need a +1 key for this comment.

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Posted Apr 25, 2014 12:11 UTC (Fri) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link] (1 responses)

Aaronic Aardvark?

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Posted Apr 25, 2014 13:21 UTC (Fri) by Otus (subscriber, #67685) [Link]

We haven't had A or C even once, yet.

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Posted Apr 25, 2014 15:46 UTC (Fri) by weue (guest, #96562) [Link]

Upgrading Ubuntu, the unelected umpire upends Upstart, unleashing the unstoppable Übermensch's unfettered ultimate unification of the universe.