Kubuntu 26.04 LTS has a Name

[NoWorries]

Just found out that the Name for the next LTS:

Ubuntu Linux 26.04 LTS Officially Named Resolute Raccoon. from the naming-ceremony dept. BrianFagioli writes: Canonical has revealed the codename for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS:

[Qqmike]

I started with Kubuntu (leaving XP) in 2007. I never could really get into the naming of the releases.
Am I a party-pooper?
Actually, I never memorized even one name through the years. I couldn't tell you what any of them are to save my life.
Thanks for Google, as needed.
I just go by the number, like 22.04, etc.
Just to be clear ... I don't see anything wrong with catchy-silly naming of releases!
Not criticizing the gods or anything.

[jlittle]

... I never could really get into the naming of the releases...

I started with Kubuntu at about the same time, and I liked the release names and used them often, usually just the adjective, f.ex. "hardy", "precise". But around about 12.04 they went right out of fashion, I suspect seen as being confusing and off-putting for newbies.

[Qqmike]

@ jlittle, Yeah, the names can be confusing! ha-ha I'm sure there is an inside story to the name picks for each release, though.

[claydoh]

"Raccoon" is a bit too common an animal for the naming, so they must be getting low on the choices somehow. But then I looked at the list, and I take that back


I'd rather have Tenacious Trash Panda or Bouncy Bin Chicken or Daring Danger Noodle. We *have* had a Jackalope and a Werewolf.......

[MoonRise]

I think I was on 5.10 when I first moved to Kubuntu from Ubuntu. Anyway, I remember always posting CD label images here trying to use the Named animal in it. Was never easy to do that. CDs no longer a thing now. Haven't looked at making one in a VERY long time. Love the USB drives for that. Feel old now.

[oshunluvr]

I think I was on 5.10 when I first moved to Kubuntu from Ubuntu. Anyway, I remember always posting CD label images here trying to use the Named animal in it. Was never easy to do that. CDs no longer a thing now. Haven't looked at making one in a VERY long time. Love the USB drives for that. Feel old now.

I still have a DVD-BluRay drive on my desk but I threw away all my CDrom blanks this year. Old indeed...

[jlittle]

I still have a DVD-BluRay drive on my desk but I threw away all my CDrom blanks this year.

I seem to recall you embarking on a media shift of all your CDs, how did that go? I, too, have a drive on my desk, with the vague intention of putting it in my desktop for digitizing a few hundred CDs.

[MoonRise]

Yeah, I've attempted the same for digitizing. Did a good many but that collection is so large, I'll never get it all, sadly,

[Snowhog]

I'd rather have Tenacious Trash Panda or Bouncy Bin Chicken or Daring Danger Noodle.

[oshunluvr]

I seem to recall you embarking on a media shift of all your CDs, how did that go? I, too, have a drive on my desk, with the vague intention of putting it in my desktop for digitizing a few hundred CDs.

It went as well as could be expected I suppose. All the movie DVDs were easy enough. Several - maybe half - of the Photos on CD-ROMs that we got from film development over that years were no longer readable. I spent some hours over several days trying to get some data off of them to no avail. However, all of these were also hard copy photo prints so any I wanted to archive I could scan. Takes longer, but still doable. Years ago I had 3000 family slides dating to before my birth. I spent the better part of a year scanning them at hi resolution one at a time. Thankfully, I had completed that task before our home was flooded and the slides ruined.

I'm honestly looking at my DVD drive now wondering if I should just unplug and store it. A couple years ago I moved it from my PC case to a USB external enclosure so I could have it on my desk instead of having to reach for the PS case - which is under my desk and several feet away from my chair. It will probably be mothballed soon...

[jlittle]

Years ago I had 3000 family slides dating to before my birth. I spent the better part of a year scanning them at hi resolution one at a time. Thankfully, I had completed that task before our home was flooded and the slides ruined.

Very cheering to hear that.

[acheron]

Apparently 'Resolute Raccoon' was the preferred choice of Steve Langasek before he passed away at the beginning of the year.

If you don't know who he was and how important he was to Ubuntu (and Debian and FOSS as a whole), Mark's discourse post explains a little:

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/remem...langasek/52665

Also: https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250117