After stepping on Luna, I thought we were going to explore Mars, but maybe the God of war is not appropriate for elementary OS.
Isis is fine, the half moon was a symbol for Isis as the queen of sky, this is a kind of nexus. Both names sound very melancholics. I hope this name will encourage a lot of volunteers and elementary will grow as the OS deserves. On Aug 16, 2013, at 9:08 PM, Daniel Foré <dan...@elementaryos.org> wrote: > Hey dudes (and hopefully a few dudettes these days), > > First of all, congratulations to all of you on 100k+ downloads in the first > week. That is freaking killer. We're getting rave reviews and (despite bug #1 > being closed) we keep hearing from tons of people that are first-time Linux > users coming from Windows and Mac OS. If you haven't been in contact with > this positive energy yet, I encourage you to hit up youtube for an ego boost. > Now down to business! > > I'm writing to announce the codename of the next elementary release: "Wanking > Wallaby" > > Jk. What is this, Ubuntu? > > I'm leaning strongly towards "Isis" for this one. It's short (2 syllables), > should be generally pretty easy to pronounce, etc. Isis is the egyptian > mother god of the throne, "friend of slaves, sinners, artisans, and the > downtrodden". You can read up more about her here: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis > > Munchor says I should go full Hitler and not allow any arguments, but if you > think the name totally sucks you can definitely say that. If not, let's go > with it! (And even if so, we'll probably still go with it!) > > Also, I think in general most of us think it would be the best idea to > release Isis (see, I'm already going with it) as closely as possible to > Ubuntu 14.04. We have a lot to prove about our ability to provide updates in > a timely manner and we're getting some negative feedback from > developers/nerds about our 12.04 base. So let's address that and make sure > that elementary is the best open platform for both users and developers (and > I guess nerds too). > > Cody is currently working on updating Congrego to spit out some super > bleeding edge Saucy-based builds. If any of you are already on Saucy, you > know how broken Pantheon currently is. Indicators and Plugs are huge problems > that we need to address. We're considering moving both of these into lib peas > plugins for Wingpanel and Switchboard (respectively). Any feedback on that > plan is very welcome. > > In general, the first priority for Isis is going to be updating all of our > apps to compile/run with the latest libraries. You should know that Midori > with the latest webkitGTK is amazing. I'm working on porting eGtk and it's > going pretty swell. You should also know that all the fancy libaccounts stuff > is now available for someone to start playing with so we can get sweet online > integration. I believe that Clutter with the touch-related bits is also > available so that is also very exciting for those of use that have a > multi-touch trackpad available. > > Anyways, let's get rolling on this cycle. We have 8 months to become even > more awesome. > > For the greater glorification of our Holy Mother Isis, > > Daniel Foré > > elementaryos.org > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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