(K)ubuntu taxonomy

[askrieger]

Re: (K)ubuntu taxonomy

From Wikipedia:

The meerkat or suricate Suricata suricatta, a small mammal, is a member of the mongoose family. Meerkats live in all parts of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana and in South Africa. A group of meerkats is called a "mob", "gang" or "clan". A meerkat clan often contains about 20 meerkats, but some superfamilies have 50 or more members. Meerkats have an average life span of 12-14 years.

There's a cute little picture attached.

However, that said: From Merriam-Webster Online:

Main Entry: 2maverick
Function: adjective
Date: 1886

: characteristic of, suggestive of, or inclined to be a maverick

Which strikes me as implying that "maverick is NOT REALLY an adjective. It is a noun signifying an unbranded animal, and referring to a 19th century American cattle baron equipped with dubious ethical standards. But it ain't my money funding this distro.

Later: "policykit" doesn't vary, but there is a "policykit-gnome" and a "polkit-kde-1", which "bring up authentication dialogs used for obtainig privileges" (same wording for both), whatever it means.

[Ole Juul]

Re: (K)ubuntu taxonomy

askrieger: Which strikes me as implying that "maverick is NOT REALLY an adjective. It is a noun signifying an unbranded animal, and referring to a 19th century American cattle baron equipped with dubious ethical standards. But it ain't my money funding this distro.

Nor my money funding Mariam-Webster Online! The use they give is simply not an adjective. That is just wrong. For example the word "truck" is not an adjective because it describes a type of vehicle. Neither is "maverick" an adjective because it describes a type of person. Anyway, coming from what I thought was a reputable source (Webster Online) that just hit me hard.

Regarding the use of cute names for versions: I don't doubt that some people find them easy, but they are difficult for me. Over and over again I find myself putting the version number into Google so that I can find out the name. Those names just aren't memorable. I mean 10.04 is a simple number, I've heard it before and it comes sequentially after 9.x. I can't imagine anything easier to remember. These are not random numbers - but the names are random. I know that 9 is a higher number than 8 but I don't know whether a Lewd Lynx is more or less than a Maverick Moron - or a potato - oh right, it's Debian that uses vegetables. /sigh

Wait! I just realized something. The names are in alphabetical order - right? I didn't know that before. OK, how about a tutorial on Ubuntu names? Better still:

man version

I just did that and it came up with:

NAME
version - print OpenSSL version information

So that one's been taken. /sigh again ...

[Telengard]

Re: (K)ubuntu taxonomy

OK, how about a tutorial on Ubuntu names?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ubuntu_releases

[askrieger]

Re: (K)ubuntu taxonomy

I seem to recall that the first release was called "Warty Warthog" because it was adjudged to be somewhat uglier than desired. I can't recall the reason why the second release was "Hoary Hedgehog". The third release was Breezy Badger, presumably because it was the second satisfactory released. That was the first Kubuntu that I used, because it was getting a lot of laudatory comment among Debian desktop users (as distinct from sysops, who LOVE Debian Stable). One might, then, have expected (as I did) that the next release would start with a C adjective and a C animal name. Imagine my surprise when it turned out to be Dapper Drake!

[russlar]

Re: (K)ubuntu taxonomy

still disappointed it's not llama