[sf-lug] SF-LUG meets Sunday May 1, 2016 (Zenial Xerus on MAY Day)

Daniel Gimpelevich daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us
Mon Apr 25 16:53:33 PDT 2016


On Mon, 2016-04-25 at 16:29 -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Ever since Ubuntu's second release Hoary Hedgehog (5.04) in April
> 2005,
> they've used a distinctive and consistent form of humourous
> alliteration for the release names, with the same letter and sound
> used
> to begin both the adjective and the noun:
> 
> Quoting from my own Linuxmafia.com Knowledgebase:
> 
> Version   Released   Name             End of Support  
>  4.10     2004-10-20 Warty Warthog    2006-04-30
>  5.04     2005-04-08 Hoary Hedgehog   2006-10-31

Prior to the release of Hoary, Ubuntu had analogues of the Debian
branches: Warty Warthog for stable, Hoary Hedgehog for testing, and
Grumpy Groundhog for unstable.





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