Ubuntu 9.04 gets a codename: Jaunty Jackalope

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has announced a codename for Ubuntu 9.04, the version of the Linux distribution slated for an April 2009 release. And that name is Jaunty Jackalope. No, seriously.

Each version of Ubunty has come with an alliterative codename where the first word is an adjective and the second is an animal. Or in this case a mythical animal. Ubuntu 8.04 is known as Hardy Heron. 8.10 will be called Intrepid Ibex. And even though the codenames aren't supposed to have much meaning once the product is officially launched, many people sitll think of Ubuntu 7.10 as Gutsy Gibbon and 7.04 as Feisty Fawn.

The Ubuntu team will focus on Jaunty from November through April and will hold a meeting with developers in Mountain View, California from December 8th through the 12th to finalize the plans for the new OS. Some goals already laid out are an improved boot time, and the continued blurring of desktop and web applications.

[via Ars Technica]

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