ubuntu Ubuntu 13.04 named. The code name is:

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Not the Runty Raccoon, the Rufflered Rhino or (even) the Randall Ross

The dash to Copenhagen combined with a dash across the Atlantic has me righteously ramfeezled, but the roisterous reception we got at the OpenStack summit (congrats, stackers, on a respectable razzmatazz of rugible cloud enthusiasm) made it worthwhile. A quick shout out to the team behind the Juju gooooey, that puts a whole new face on cloud agility ? rousing stuff.

Nevertheless, it?s way past time to root our next rhythmic release in some appropriate adjective.

The challenge, of course, has been the number of entirely inappropriate adjectives that presented themselves along the way. Go read the dictionary. R is just loaded with juicy stuff we can?t use without invoking the radge wrath of the rinky-dink chorus. Sigh.

Nevertheless, somewhere between the risibly rambunctious and the reboantly ran-tan, the regnally rakish and the reciprocornously rorty, there was bound to be a good fit. Something radious or rident, something to rouse our rowthy rabble.

So what will we be up to in the next six months? We have two short cycles before we?re into the LTS, and by then we want to have the phone, tablet and TV all lined up. So I think it?s time to look at the core of Ubuntu and review it through a mobile lens: let?s measure our core platform by mobile metrics, things like battery life, number of running processes, memory footprint, and polish the rough edges that we find when we do that. The tighter we can get the core, the better we will do on laptops and the cloud, too.

So bring along a Nexus 7 if you?re coming to Copenhagen, because it makes a rumpty reference for our rootin? tootin? radionic razoring. The raving Rick and his merry (wo)men will lead us to a much leaner, sharper, more mobile world. We?ll make something? wonderful, and call it the Raring Ringtail. See you there soon.

Update: for clarity, this ringtail is no laconic lemur, it?s a ringtail raccoon. However, for the sake of sanity, it?s not a raring ringtail raccoon, just a raring ringtail. There.

Source: Mark Shuttleworth's blog

[Noir Angel]

8 more versions till they run out of letters. Hopefully next time they go through the alphabet their naming scheme will be something a bit less... dumb.

[Charisma Veteran]

As long as they use "Wascally Wabbit" for W :D

[Syanide]

Someone on reddit pointed out that there are two rings in the name, so they're speculating the first versions of Ubuntu Phone might come with 13.04.

Silly name as usual, but it's become tradition now.

[LittleNeutrino Veteran]

As long as they use "Wascally Wabbit" for W :D

that would be epic, too bad they would be sued for using it.

[simplezz]

Finally, a name I can pronounce :D

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

Or wascally warthog, lol

[AJerman]

Someone on reddit pointed out that there are two rings in the name, so they're speculating the first versions of Ubuntu Phone might come with 13.04.

Silly name as usual, but it's become tradition now.

That would be quite sly of them. I know they are working to get all of that stuff unified ASAP. Could fit the time frame.

[Growled Member]

Finally, a name I can pronounce :D

I was thinking that too. Mark seems to be slipping.