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Ubuntu 10.10: The Maverick Meerkat Announced

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Sean Michael Kerner
Apr 2, 2010

“What follows a Lucid Lynx? Why none other than a Maverick
Meerkat. Well at least it does for Ubuntu Linux.

“Ubuntu founder and self-appointed-dictator-for-life Mark
Shuttleworth announced today that the Ubuntu 10.10 release would be
codenamed the Maverick Meerkat.

“Now if he had announced this yesterday some might have thought
it was an April Fools joke – but then again after Gutsby Gibbon,
Hoary Hedgehog, Jaunty Jackalope and Intrepid Ibex what Ubuntu
codename isn’t a bit ‘weird’ to say the least?”


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