Breezy + 1 = The Dapper Drake!

[UbuWu]

Mark Shuttleworth just announced the name of breezy+1 on the mailing lists:

In keeping with tradition, it's time to name the next+1 release of Ubuntu.

Ubuntu 6.04(ish) will be special, because as a community we are going to
commit to supporting it for 3 years on the desktop, and 5 years on the
server. In Montreal (October 30-Nov 6, all hackers welcome, companies
send your developers, chip in and define it 'cos we all have to live
with it, details at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBelowZero etc) we will
be figuring out what changes are needed to the release process to ensure
we can deliver on that commitment. We're likely to want to be a bit more
conservative in the feature goals, and freeze a little longer.

It's 6.04 that will be up against Windows Vista, so let's make it a
zinger and give folks a real choice.

The 6.04 release will be the culmination of 2 years hard work, with
Warty, Hoary and Breezy having set the style and the pace. We want it to
represent the fruit of that labour - it brings to a close this first
major cycle of development for Ubuntu. It will be a release that people
can plan for, participate in and build solutions on top of. It will get
even more polish than we put into Breezy, so we think it deserves a name
that reflects that polish.

And so, after much deliberation, it has been decided that 6.04 will be
known during development as:

The Dapper Drake

I'm sure the Ubuntu Artwork Team will have a field day

As usual, the "dapper" repository will be opened after the release of
Breezy. Till then, let's focus all of our energy on the upcoming release!

Mark

[seiflotfy]

that means the next release will be in 2 years ?????

[Knome_fan]

that means the next release will be in 2 years ?????

Don't worry, it doesn't
Ubuntu will continue to have new releases every 6 months.

Where did you get the idea about the 2 years anyway?

Edit:
And of course:
Yay for Dapper Drake!

[GeneralZod]

Don't worry, it doesn't
Ubuntu will continue to have new releases every 6 months.

Where did you get the idea about the 2 years anyway?

Edit:
And of course:
Yay for Dapper Drake!

I'm guessing this bit:

The 6.04 release will be the culmination of 2 years hard work

It's fairly easy to misinterpret this as "2 years from now"

[Knome_fan]

I'm guessing this bit:



It's fairly easy to misinterpret this as "2 years from now"

You're right, this could be it.

[kleeman]

Dapper Drake=Donald Duck's upscale cousin?

[Brunellus]

Finally something to unify the Ubuntu and Kubuntu factions!

Ubuntu Dapper Drake: A well-dressed waterfowl

Kubuntu Dapper Drake: Konqui, in white tie & tails

[TravisNewman]

except Konqui isn't a drake. Perhaps the kubuntu team could take konqui out of KDE and replace him with a drake! Now that's an idea.

I like the Dapper Drake name, perhaps better than any so far.

[Trojan1313]

That's it, I'm int he mailing list.
This is SO great news, nice to see that there really is a distro that aims to actully compete with Microsoft!
Viva Ubuntu!

[Brunellus]

except Konqui isn't a drake. Perhaps the kubuntu team could take konqui out of KDE and replace him with a drake! Now that's an idea.

I like the Dapper Drake name, perhaps better than any so far.

well, I mean, Drake is close enough to Dragon, right?