Time for Xenial Xerus / myLot

Manchester, England

January 9, 2018 11:37am CST

This rather bizarre sounding name is the title given to the latest release of Ubuntu operating system. Each new version has been given a name along with the version release number. Having recently formatted my desktop computer and reinstalled Windows and additional software, I decided it was time to clean up my laptop as well. It is a while since I last used Ubuntu and decided to try the latest version in order to see how it has changed. I was running Ubuntu on the laptop when Microsoft offered the free upgrades to Windows 10, so I reverted back to the original copy of Windows 7 in order to upgrade, but never got around to changing it back.

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Belle Starr (Iz)

@BelleStarr (61102)

• United States

15 Jan 18

You lost me at Ubuntu!! lol I have never used anything except Windows on a computer and whatever apple uses on the i products.

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Koalemos

@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

15 Jan 18

Ubuntu is a very good operating system and compares well against Windows.

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Koalemos

@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

15 Jan 18

@BelleStarr He best thing about Ubuntu is that the whole system and software is free.

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Belle Starr (Iz)

@BelleStarr (61102)

• United States

15 Jan 18

@Asylum And if I was your neighbor I would be trying it lol

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louievill

@louievill (28851)

• Philippines

9 Jan 18

At first I thought it was a medicine or some kind of Ancient Greek hero movie, wonder why they have to make the name so difficult

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Koalemos

@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

9 Jan 18

They have done this with every new version so far. A few times they have used animal names that I did not previously know.

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louievill

@louievill (28851)

• Philippines

9 Jan 18

@Asylum oh my, don't they know that name recall is very important for business

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Koalemos

@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

9 Jan 18

@louievill They depend on the name Ubuntu instead of individual versions. People will remember the current one as Ubuntu 16.

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ShannyBananny

@shaggin (72131)

• United States

9 Jan 18

That is an odd name I assume the X's are pronounced as Z's.

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Koalemos

@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

9 Jan 18

Yes they are. Every version of Ubuntu to date has had a bizarre name.

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changjiangzhibin89

@changjiangzhibin89 (16763)

• China

14 Jan 18

I don't have a clue about Ubuntu operating system ,apart from Windows xp,7,10,etc.

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Koalemos

@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

14 Jan 18

Ubuntu is a decent operating system and very popular.

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changjiangzhibin89

@changjiangzhibin89 (16763)

• China

15 Jan 18

@Asylum Oh,I am so ill-informed.I will search it online.

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RasmaSandra

@RasmaSandra (79833)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

9 Jan 18

Never heard of this. I am not very technical.

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Koalemos

@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

9 Jan 18

Very few people will have heard of Xenial Xerus, apart from the people who are currently using it. The title Ubuntu is certainly well known as an operating system.

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