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Re:Ubuntu 9.04 to be called Jaunty Jackalope by shiranaihito on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @04:51PM (#299828)
I'm waiting for Sassy Sasquatch.

But I agree, the names are too silly for a serious operating system.

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Re:Ubuntu 9.04 to be called Jaunty Jackalope by orib on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @08:51PM (#299962)
Who said it had to be serious? A sense of humor is always something I enjoy in products I use. a Unix system just isn't a Unix system without the bsd-games package! Silly easter eggs just make programs more fun to use; it gives them a bit of personality.

So long as they don't get in the way of using the software, I don't see the harm.

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Re:Ubuntu 9.04 to be called Jaunty Jackalope by corentin on Wednesday September 10, 2008 @02:51AM (#300181)
What's a serious operating system? Unix was invented to play video games, the first version of MS-DOS was called "Quick and Dirty Operating System"... And who would name his system the "Incompatible Time-Sharing System", anyway?
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