Ubuntu in its own words
Ubuntu 10.04 is now about five weeks away, which means the announcement of Lucid+1 (our vote is still for Manky Monkey) is around the corner. To kill the time between now and the announcement of what's to come in the next version, we decided to take a look at the keywords used to describe previous Ubuntu releases to see how priorities have changed over the years
So, making use of the excellent Wordle, we made word clouds out of the release announcements from Dapper Drake through to Lucid Lynx - the bigger each word appears, the more it was mentioned. Can you guess which one is which? To make things a little more interesting, we've removed the Ubuntu distro code names (Dapper, etc), which means you'll have to use your cunning to figure it out. To make things even more interesting, we've included five other OS announcement word clouds after the Ubuntus - can you figure them out too?
The first person to correctly guess all the word clouds wins a free internet. We'll post the correct answers in a few days. Good luck!
Ubuntu word clouds
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Other OS word clouds
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Wild guess!
uomosenzanome - March 29, 2010 @ 7:56pm
This is the best I could come up with on my 15 min break:
Ubuntu releases
1) Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft)
2) Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron)
3) Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
4) Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)
5) Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)
6) Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx)
7) Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake)
8) Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)
9) Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
Other OSs:
1) Windows XP
2) Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6)
3) Windows 7
4) Mac OS X
5) Windows Vista
A free internet what?
uomosenzanome - March 29, 2010 @ 8:00pm
A free internet what?
clarification
uomosenzanome - March 29, 2010 @ 9:35pm
When I said:
1) Windows XP
It was for the first official retail release version October 25, 2001 . . . whatever they meant by "gold" code. That's my best guess.
clarification 2
uomosenzanome - March 29, 2010 @ 9:40pm
Oh and when I say:
2) Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6)
It is most likely this specific version:
Mac OS X Server v10.6 Snow Leopard
our vote is still for Manky Monkey
uomosenzanome - March 30, 2010 @ 2:14pm
My vote is still for Mammoth Mammoth :p though I like Mankey Monkey too :)
Ubuntu Lucid+1
Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - March 30, 2010 @ 9:27pm
Being a Yank, I'd say Mad Moose would go over well with certain segments of the American populace. Whether they know what Linux is, on the other hand, may be a matter for debate...
Mickey Mouse? If Disney
Tygrys (not verified) - March 31, 2010 @ 4:28am
Mickey Mouse? If Disney says it's OK.
or Mini Mouse - make it small and fast
i do like Mad Moose
Obvious 80's Kids TV Show Ref.
adam_g2000 (not verified) - April 1, 2010 @ 2:12am
Or...
Marvellous Marmoset.
Mischievous Mongoose.
Monumental Mouse.
Microscopic Mole.
Misunderstood Moomin...
PS: Sorry for going off topic but...
adam_g2000 (not verified) - April 1, 2010 @ 2:16am
...the actual competition seemed too hard.
Clarification on the prize?
Manky Monkey (not verified) - April 1, 2010 @ 7:12am
'A free internet' - is that free as in 'beer' or free as in 'speech'? Either way, that's going to take a bit of sorting out!
@ "A free internet what?"
DaVince - April 5, 2010 @ 1:24am
One free internets. It's a meme.
I think it'll be called
Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - April 7, 2010 @ 9:41pm
I think it'll be called Maverick Meerkat.
To be very frank...I have
uomoconnome (not verified) - April 10, 2010 @ 12:53pm
To be very frank...I have not the slightest clue what this is all about!
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