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

[Bobbie Sellers]

On 04/25/2016 04:29 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Bobbie Sellers (bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com):
>
>> Zenial is not the same as xenial.  If the word was Xenial it would be
>> a good name for a distribution but ground squirrels in the US are
>> frequently and literally rabid.
>>
>> I know it is harder to look up.but that is the spelling that the
>> Canonical forces give and the definition may be slang but it means what I said it
>> did.
>>      <http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Zenial>
> It would indeed have been very amusing _had_ Canonical, Ltd. used
> Zenial, but they didn't.  Please see:
>
> http://releases.ubuntu.com/xenial/
>
> 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
>   5.10     2005-10-13 Breezy Badger    2007-04-13
>   6.06 LTS 2006-06-01 Dapper Drake     2009-06 desktops, 2011-06 servers
>   6.10     2006-10-26 Edgy Eft         2008-04-25
>   7.04     2007-04-19 Feisty Fawn      2008-10
>   7.10     2007-10-18 Gutsy Gibbon     2009-04
>   8.04 LTS 2008-04-24 Hardy Heron      2011-04 desktops, 2013-04 servers
>   8.10     2008-10-30 Intrepid Ibex    2010-04
>   9.04     2009-04-23 Jaunty Jackalope 2011-10
>   9.10     2009-10-29 Karmic Koala     2011-04
> 10.04 LTS 2010-04-29 Lucid Lynx       2013-04 desktops, 2015-04 servers
> 10.10     2010-10-10 Maverick Meerkat 2012-04
> 11.04     2011-04-28 Natty Narwhal    2012-10
> 11.10     2011-10-13 Oneiric Ocelot   2013-04
> 12.04 LTS 2012-04-26 Precise Pangolin 2017-04 both desktops and servers
> 12.10     2012-10-18 Quantal Quetzal  2014-04 both desktops and servers
> 13.04     2013-04-18 Raring Ringtail  2014-01 both desktops and servers
> 13.10     2013-10-17 Saucy Salamander 2014-07 both desktops and servers
> 14.04 LTS 2014-04-17 Trusty Tahr      2019-04
> 14.10     2014-10-23 Utopic Unicorn   2015-07
> 15.04     2015-04-23 Vivid Vervet     2016-01
> 15.10     2015-10-22 Wily Werewolf    2016-07
> 16.04 LTS 2016-04-21 Xenial Xerus     2021-04
>
>
>> Approaching perfection possible neologism from zenith or from a
>> misapprehenions of Zen Buddhist goals.
> You have two more releases to come up with a good 'Z' modifier for them.
> ;->
>
> Zat is zeriously ze zippiest zexplanation zis zide of zymurgy.  [Hic!,
> said the inebriated Latinist, pointing.]

     Well I don't where I got Zenial with the "Z".
     I guess with dyslexia and dyspraxia all combinations are possible.

     At least I had not yet sent out a column without correction.

     Thanks for the discussion and for the zpeeling azzistanze.

     bliss