Shooting for the Perfect 10.10 with Maverick Meerkat

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While some count the days until our equipment installed on the new Ubuntu version called Lucid Lynx 10.04 (the next April 29), Mark Shuttleworth (founder of Canonical) revealed the name that will be known the next version of this distribution Linux (the 10.10) and is slated for release in October this year.

For those who do not yet understand how Canonical determines the numbers and names of each version, we'll tell you that the first number is the year and the second (after the dot) the month in which the new version is released. As for the name corresponds to an adjective and an animal following an alphabetical order so if Ubuntu 10.04 was dubbed Lucid Lynx now it was the letter M, so that Ubuntu 10.10 will be named Maverick Meerkat.

The Meerkat (Suricata also known as) is a small mammal that belongs to the mongoose family that inhabits the Kalahari desert region and the Namib in Africa.

According to Shuttleworth this animal was chosen to give names to the next version of Ubuntu to be fast, lightweight and social (to aim toward this new version.) As the latter was a later version of a LTS (Long Term Support), for any number of tests with new technologies and experiment with as many, not ruled out radical changes (such as a new interface for the hand of GNOME 3.0).

Link: Shooting for the Perfect 10.10 with Maverick Meerkat : http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/336​