Intrepid Ibex
In celebration of the newly announced "Intrepid Ibex" (or Ubuntu 8.10), I once again bring your attention to my python script which generates alternative Ubuntu names. I brute forced some names starting with I and came up with these alternatives (which suggests maybe Intrepid Impala would be a nicer name for 8.10). So,
radbrad@renton:~/python/ubuntu/choose_ubuntu$ while ((1));do python namer.py |grep ^I; done;
Inspirational Insect
Insolent Imp
Inexpensive Imp
Illustrious Ichthyosaur
Ingenious Indri
Incredible Impala
Immense Inkanyamba
Insurgent Ibis
Indefatigable Insect
Inescapable Ichthyosaur
Impressive Ichthyosaur
Inquisitive Imp
Ignited Impala
Ineffable Imp
Inevitable Insect
Inquisitive Ibis
Immodest Imp
Incomparable Ibex
Incredible Ichthyosaur
Ill Insect
Impressive Ibex
Indefatigable Ichthyosaur
Icky Iceweasel
Like the kubuntu, xubuntu, gubuntu names confuse newbies and make Ubuntu difficult to market. I dig the naming scheme, just not the names that come out of it.
Also, the register points out that:
We're informed that a male ibex will try and tempt a female into sex by licking and sniffing the lass and by issuing a low scream. It's suspected that Bono responds to a similar ritual. Sometimes the female will demonstrate her interest by urinating or by ramming the male with her horns. The male then returns the favor through the flehmen response, which is a curling of the upper lip. This goes on for about 30 minutes until Bono shows up or the ibexes get it on.
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Perhaps you should send the script to Mark Shuttleworth? Surely then we'd have had an Icky Iceweasel. If that's not an inspirational name, what is?
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