As Ubuntu 12.10 went out the door, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth announced initial plans for the next major release, 13.04. The first big reveal was the new name – the Raring Ringtail.
“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,” Shuttleworth blogged. “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.”