With a name like that, how long before the media call it the NUTTY Narwhal?
Or the NUTTY KNOW-ALL? Worse name ever for an Ubuntu release. Calling any product Natty is a recipe for disaster. They could have chosen something more positive, such as Nimble Nightingale. David King Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: > On 17 August 2010 19:44, Laura Czajkowski <la...@lczajkowski.com> wrote: > >> Aloha, >> >> Thought folks might be interested to know that 11.04 will be the Natty >> Narwhal http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/478 >> >> Laura >> >> -- >> >> > > > Easy steps to make your product fail: > > 1) Give it a name only the developers would understand in its proper > context, e.g. GIMP. > 2) ??? > 3) Profit! > > *cough* Sorry. > > 2) Promote the product via this name (or codename). > 3) Wonder why the general public (general ignorant audience) don't > jump on board when they think the name sounds unprofessional or just > plain stupid (e.g. GIMP). > 4) Resist all urges by your community to change the name as there's > nothing wrong with it. > > If you read this far, thank you. The point I think I'm trying to make > is that Canonical seems to be wandering further and further off into > obscure yet geeky-cool naming schemes. Let's look at them shall we? > > Warty Warthog. Fine. It was warty. Makes sense, warthog. Warts. Fine. > Hoary Hedgehog. Familiar animal, hairy so mature. OK I guess. > Breezy Badger. Easy breezy. Nice and simple. Badger is a dependable > creature. Good name. > Dapper Drake. Dapper, polished. Good. LTS. Drake? It's a male duck. > Umm. They like to gang rape female ducks? Or do you mean a flying > dragon? > Edgy Eft. Edgy, damned right it was. WTF is an Eft? > Feisty Fawn. Bit musty and mouldy? Grovelling about on the floor? Oh, > wait, you mean eager? And a deer? An eager deer? > Gutsy Gibbon. Gutsy, fine. Strong. Gibbon, fine, intelligent, mobile, > sociable etc. > Hardy Heron. Hardy, strong, LTS. Good name for an LTS. Heron, patient. > Good name. > Intrepid Ibex. Breaking new ground, Ibex is a call back to Ubuntu > origin. Good name. > Jaunty Jackalope. OK, here we go. A fictional creature that's a bit > sure of itself. > Karmic Koala. Karmic as in it has reached nirvana? I'm not sure Karmic > was /that/ good. Koalas eat eucalyptus; was that a package introduced? > Elastic computing thing? > Lucid Lynx. Clear-minded wildcat. Umm. Not exactly a dependable > creature for an LTS, then. > Maverick Meerkat. Advert tie-in. Simples. Was any new ground broken? I > can't really think of any, indicator was introduced in Lucid. Oh wait, > the window button positions. That's ground-breaking, obviously. > Natty Narwhal. Oh come on. > > >From WordNet (r) 2.0 : > > dapper > adj : marked by smartness in dress and manners; "a dapper young > man"; "a jaunty red hat" [syn: dashing, jaunty, natty, > raffish, rakish, smart, spiffy, snappy, spruce] > > Dapper, Jaunty, Natty? Well, at least that's the codenames for R and S > sorted (I'm going to bet now on Raffish and Spiffy). > > >From WordNet (r) 2.0 : > > narwhal > n : small arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk > [syn: narwal, narwhale, Monodon monoceros] > > Monodon. Monoceros. Those are good names. Sound powerful, hints of > rhinoceros (and Ubuntu again). Oh, wait, we've already had M in 10.10. > Raffish Rhinoceros for 13.04, anyone? Nah, rhinoceros is too well > known. It would have to be something like Raffish Roach (that's right, > it's a fish, but people will think it's a cockroach. Perfect!). > > Enough ranting. I'll leave you with this: > > >From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 : > narwhal > it is called also sea unicorn, unicorn fish, > and unicorn whale. > > > > Jonathon > > Oh, if 13.04 is Raffish Roach do I get a prize? > > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
