Mark Shuttleworth has announced the name of Ubuntu 12.04 in his blog, Here be Dragons:
“12.04 is an LTS. So we want it to be tough and long-lasting, reliable, solid as a rock and well defended. It’s also going to be the face of Ubuntu for large deployments for a long time, so we want it to have no loose ends, we want it to be coherent, neat.
“We’ve told the story of the cloud in previous releases, and that comes to fruition in 12.04 with the first LTS that supports both the cloud guest, and cloud infrastructure, across ARM and x86 architectures. We’ve also told the story of Unity in previous releases, and that comes to fruition in a fast, lean interface that works well across clients both thick and thin. 12.04 is going to be a lot more than all that, but for the full reveal, you’ll need to wait till UDS! Nevertheless, we can take reliability, precision, and polish as a given.
“Balancing all of those options, I think we have just the right mix in our designated mascot for 12.04 LTS. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Precise Pangolin.”
A pangolin is defined by Wikipedia to be a mammal with “large, hardened, plate-like scales”. The scales are made of keratin, the same material human fingernails are made of.
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is due for release in April, 2012.
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wow that pangolin is amazing! he can roll himself into a ball!
Shuttleworth said the pangolin also precisely wipes out all anthills in its vicinity.