Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to be named Trusty Tahr (opens in new tab)

(markshuttleworth.com)

30 pointsnitins12y ago28 comments

28 comments

oellegaard12y ago

Google search queries for "tahr" increased by 1000%

prattmic12y ago

We shall see in a few days.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=tahr#q=tahr%2C%20trus...

oftenwrong12y ago

hits to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahr about to go critical

gtaylor12y ago

They're going to bring Mir/XMir in for an LTS? That seems to be risky to me. These large Canonical-backed projects seem to have a whole lot of rough spots on launch day. upstart and Unity both were very buggy initially.

Or is this going to be one of those cases where they come out aiming for LTS, but end up pushing it back to the next release?

randallsquared12y ago

Rick Spencer said last night at a release party that he expected that 14.10 would have Mir, since otherwise his team would have to support early-2014 Mir for years, which he didn't want to do because it's still improving so quickly.

If I understand correctly, Mir is currently used only on the phone edition.

gtaylor12y ago

Did you mean 14.10 would have XOrg, or am I reading this way wrong?

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mrbill12y ago

Now all I can think of is a guy named Jimbob wanting to get a set of four tahrs for his truck.

freehunter12y ago

"At least we know now who belongs to the Open Source Tea Party"

Ouch! Shuttleworth doesn't shy away from controversy. It's not a bad thing to be polarizing in a quickly-moving industry, but that comment seemed pretty harsh.

ElliotH12y ago

I don't see why he's helping incite the bizarre religious wars that have started up lately about Mir vs Wayland, Systemd vs Everyone, Unity vs Everyone.

The great thing about a Linux system is we can choose the components we want. If he wants Mir and Unity and Upstart in his distro then great.If I want Wayland and Systemd and Gnome 3 then I can go with that.

The arguments eventually come down to technical merit. Whichever one is best will eventually be used. If not, the competition leads us to an arms race of features. Everyone wins.

Nobody does well by there being no competition though, down that road lies IE6.

danpalmer12y ago

Agreed, although for those who already see one as having 'won' on technical merit, it might make sense for them to try and shift development to the future of that project, rather than continue down a route that they believe will always be inferior.

pavanky12y ago

It is funny that he should make such a comment. They are the ones who began the attacks on Wayland while launching Mir.

ChikkaChiChi12y ago

They should have gone with Tapir. That way we could have made "Calvin"-type peeing stickers that spanned the entire back window of our pickup trucks.

Tapirs - The Super Soakers of the animal kingdom.

plorg12y ago

Nice adjective for the LTS.

happycube12y ago

Targ would've been better, IMO. ;)

dfrey12y ago

Dear Mark Shuttleworth,

It's not too late to switch the name to Titillating Tit.

teovall12y ago

http://i.imgur.com/7ZAnqlh.jpg

zidar12y ago

It's gonna take a while, but I really woder what comes after Z.

DanBC12y ago

I hope W is Wombat related, and they do something for the Northern Hairy Nose Wombat. They lost 10% of their entire worldwide population to dingoes (maybe a single dingo) in the year 2000 / 2001. It's one of the rarest animals on Earth.

http://www.wildlife.org.au/wildlife/speciesprofile/mammals/n...

http://www.australianfauna.com/northernhairynosedwombat.php

EDIT: I have no idea what they taste like, but if they're as nice as bacon we can be sure they'd stop being as rare.

diminish12y ago

they'll start with dessert names?

Zancarius12y ago

I was rather hoping for Tumultuous Tarsier.

Keyframe12y ago

So what happens after when they reach Z?

soapdog12y ago

They go to three letters, such as Annoyingly Angry Antelope...

Theodores12y ago

Although LTS releases are more reliable and better supported, I find the other releases to be more exciting. Hence I will probably wait for 'Ubuntu 14.10 Unitarian Unicorn' or whatever it is called.

deviltry12y ago

Stupid name like all Android/Ubuntu releases.

ElliotH12y ago

...or you could call it 14.04 (and Android 2.3, 4.1 etc etc) if you don't like easy to remember words. Let's face it 'Mavericks' and 'Blue' aren't much better.

hrkristian12y ago

Really? I liked this one, it's obscure (never even heard of the animal) but kinda Star Trek'y and easy to pronounce.

adrianlmm12y ago

I think "Tim Tebow" would have been an awesome name.

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28 comments

oellegaard12y ago

Google search queries for "tahr" increased by 1000%

prattmic12y ago

We shall see in a few days.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=tahr#q=tahr%2C%20trus...

oftenwrong12y ago

hits to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahr about to go critical

gtaylor12y ago

Or is this going to be one of those cases where they come out aiming for LTS, but end up pushing it back to the next release?

randallsquared12y ago

If I understand correctly, Mir is currently used only on the phone edition.

gtaylor12y ago

Did you mean 14.10 would have XOrg, or am I reading this way wrong?

1 more reply

mrbill12y ago

Now all I can think of is a guy named Jimbob wanting to get a set of four tahrs for his truck.

freehunter12y ago

"At least we know now who belongs to the Open Source Tea Party"

Ouch! Shuttleworth doesn't shy away from controversy. It's not a bad thing to be polarizing in a quickly-moving industry, but that comment seemed pretty harsh.

ElliotH12y ago

I don't see why he's helping incite the bizarre religious wars that have started up lately about Mir vs Wayland, Systemd vs Everyone, Unity vs Everyone.

The arguments eventually come down to technical merit. Whichever one is best will eventually be used. If not, the competition leads us to an arms race of features. Everyone wins.

Nobody does well by there being no competition though, down that road lies IE6.

danpalmer12y ago

pavanky12y ago

It is funny that he should make such a comment. They are the ones who began the attacks on Wayland while launching Mir.

ChikkaChiChi12y ago

They should have gone with Tapir. That way we could have made "Calvin"-type peeing stickers that spanned the entire back window of our pickup trucks.

Tapirs - The Super Soakers of the animal kingdom.

plorg12y ago

Nice adjective for the LTS.

happycube12y ago

Targ would've been better, IMO. ;)

dfrey12y ago

Dear Mark Shuttleworth,

It's not too late to switch the name to Titillating Tit.

teovall12y ago

http://i.imgur.com/7ZAnqlh.jpg

zidar12y ago

It's gonna take a while, but I really woder what comes after Z.

DanBC12y ago

http://www.wildlife.org.au/wildlife/speciesprofile/mammals/n...

http://www.australianfauna.com/northernhairynosedwombat.php

EDIT: I have no idea what they taste like, but if they're as nice as bacon we can be sure they'd stop being as rare.

diminish12y ago

they'll start with dessert names?

Zancarius12y ago

I was rather hoping for Tumultuous Tarsier.

Keyframe12y ago

So what happens after when they reach Z?

soapdog12y ago

They go to three letters, such as Annoyingly Angry Antelope...

Theodores12y ago

Although LTS releases are more reliable and better supported, I find the other releases to be more exciting. Hence I will probably wait for 'Ubuntu 14.10 Unitarian Unicorn' or whatever it is called.

deviltry12y ago

Stupid name like all Android/Ubuntu releases.

ElliotH12y ago

...or you could call it 14.04 (and Android 2.3, 4.1 etc etc) if you don't like easy to remember words. Let's face it 'Mavericks' and 'Blue' aren't much better.

hrkristian12y ago

Really? I liked this one, it's obscure (never even heard of the animal) but kinda Star Trek'y and easy to pronounce.

adrianlmm12y ago

I think "Tim Tebow" would have been an awesome name.

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