Ubuntu 24.10 Is The "Oracular Oriole"

[sophisticles]

The current codename for Linux is "Hurr durr I'ma ninja sloth", so the bar isn't set very high.

At first I thought you were joking, but sure enough, in the Makefile:

# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
VERSION = 6
PATCHLEVEL = 9
SUBLEVEL = 0
EXTRAVERSION = -rc6
NAME = Hurr durr I'ma ninja sloth

WTF?

Imagine your stock broker calls you one day and the following conversation takes place:

Charlie the stock broker - Frank, buddy, how you doing?

Frank - Hey Chuck, what's the good word?

Charlie - Do i have an opportunity for you.

Frank - Talk to me.

Charlie - It's an IPO, I can get you in at 33.

Frank - 33? You think there's good upside here?

Charlie - It's all upside man, have I ever steered you wrong?

Frank - Ok, tell me about this company.

Charlie - Well they are a software company that doesn't sell software, they give away for free.

Frank - Wait, what? Then how do they make money?

Charlie - The sell support contracts.

Frank - Do they have a monopoly on the market or do they have competition?

Charlie - They have lots of competition, from the upstream software vendor they are based on and all the downstream variants that use them as a base, not to mention all the other competitors that release free versions, all using the same basic foundation.

Frank - Tell me about this foundation.

Charlie - It's named, hold on to your hat, Hurr durr I'ma ninja sloth.

Frank - Hurr durr I'ma ninja sloth?

Charlie - Yep. And the flagship product they make is named Oracular Oriole.

Frank - Well you talked me into it, sold. Sign me up for 10 thousand shares.

Charlie - Wait, really? Are you drunk again?

Frank - Well, yeah, obviously.

Charlie - Yeah, me too. I'll send you a prospectus right over.

Frank - Good man.

[mxan]

Oracle suing in 3, 2, 1…

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