Ubuntu Linux 26.04 LTS Officially Named Resolute Raccoon (nerds.xyz) 37
BrianFagioli writes: Canonical has revealed the codename for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS: Resolute Raccoon. The announcement came today on X through the official @ubuntu account, continuing the tradition of pairing an adjective with an animal for each release. As an LTS version, it will be supported for five years and serve as the foundation for servers, desktops, and cloud deployments when it launches in April 2026.
While the name itself is now public, the features of Ubuntu 26.04 remain under wraps. The community will be watching closely to see which kernel it ships with, how GNOME evolves, and what improvements land for enterprise and container use. For now, fans simply have a raccoon mascot to rally around as the countdown to April begins.
While the name itself is now public, the features of Ubuntu 26.04 remain under wraps. The community will be watching closely to see which kernel it ships with, how GNOME evolves, and what improvements land for enterprise and container use. For now, fans simply have a raccoon mascot to rally around as the countdown to April begins.
Oh man, they should have done the funny thing (Score:4, Funny)
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Anyone remembering "Stoned Beaver"?
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Masturbating Monkey
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Rocky Raccoon.
Just why? (Score:3)
Why do people think that everything needs a name? Just the number is enough. Ubuntu Linux 26.04. It doesn't also need a name, nor a color, nor a size, nor any other adjectives or attributes. I just roll my eyes any time I hear "Android four point oh ice cream sandwich". Why use two words when seven will suffice?
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I have a piece of furniture named Samantha. It is easier to say something like, "it's on Samantha" than "it's on the brown thing next to the front door."
I have two pieces of luggage named Big Green and Little Green. It's easier to say something like, "Hey kid, slide Little Green over here" than "Hey Kid, slide the small green luggage over here".
Names are convenient.
Re:Just why? (Score:4, Insightful)
I have a piece of furniture named Samantha. It is easier to say something like, "it's on Samantha" than "it's on the brown thing next to the front door."
I have two pieces of luggage named Big Green and Little Green. It's easier to say something like, "Hey kid, slide Little Green over here" than "Hey Kid, slide the small green luggage over here".
Names are convenient.
Which operating system is newer: Focal Fossa or Sequoia? Gingerbread or Wheezy? Calendar versioning is pretty useful for some things. Major/minor revision versioning is useful for others. Codenames worked for Ubuntu during the first alphabetical run, but they started out non-alphabetical with WW, then HH, then BB, then DD-ZZ,AA-QQ, and now the second RR. The third WW will happen before the second CC. Codename versioning can work within one product line to denote relative age, but only if done properly. They're mostly marketing. When 'nix-heads chat about Ubuntu or Debian, they mention Ubuntu's calendar version or Debian's major version. Mac-heads, while numbered versioning exists, focus on the names and get confused about the relative ages of anything other than current. Naming discreet things like servers not in a cluster which don't need to have relative comparison to one another? Sure, ST:TNG up your rack space. But software is a different matter.
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That level of detail is in the version number.
That level of detail isn't needed all of the time.
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"The third World War will happen before the second Coming of Christ."
You nailed that one!
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But less convenient than version numbers, particularly since Ubuntu uses very predictable versioning.
So I know that even numbered years are LTS and the version number is YY.MM, and the month is always April for LTS and October is the other possibility.
So with that all in mind, one says "ok, I know I need to add stuff for Ubuntu 24.04 to this configuration". Except some configurations don't do version number and take the codename. So now I've got to remember 'noble'. Canonical themselves in their web site
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Except some configurations don't do version number and take the codename. So now I've got to remember 'noble'.
God point; I'd forgotten that their repo URLs are named by codename.
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Names are convenient.
My dad called his car "Bessie".
Problem is, he called every car we owned "Bessie"... even when we owned two cars.
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Sounds like your dad had a thing for "Bessie", and I ain't talkin' 'bout no car!
Re:Just why? (Score:4, Insightful)
It's actually a detriment in that it can be difficult to figure out what version you actually have. It's been an annoyance since I started running Mint, which is Ubuntu-based. Mint has to have their own name, based on another name for Ubuntu, based loosely on yet another name for Debian version closest to the rolling release they froze Ubuntu at. So then you go to find a package for your system, and the package developers all (sensibly) list the specific version number their packages are built for. Which starts me unrolling the dumb loop on what actual version number my system is actually based on.
The dumb names were cute exactly once. Get over it and just roll with the numbers, which (being based on year of issue) are actually meaningful and useful.
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Personally I manage a ~1000 box server farm running Ubuntu, and it's convenient to go with the version name at times over the number...idk why bc the number is shorter than writing the name, but it just is lol
"It's called 'plooknuny', and we just made it up." (Score:2)
"While the name itself is now public, the features of Ubuntu 26.04 remain under wraps."
Reporting that there's no real news yet is still not real news.
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The name is more important than the product.
That kinda sucks.
How about... (Score:3)
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I'm just bracing for the next load of breakage. I wish they could keep userland a bit more stable between releases.
They missed a great opportunity... (Score:2)
... to name it "Rocket Raccoon" and get sued by The Mouse !
Wuhoo! The name is public! (Score:2)
secret release details (Score:2)
"While the name itself is now public, the features of Ubuntu 26.04 remain under wraps."
Who wants any distribution whose details are secret until the release? If how the sausages are made is that scary, it's TOO scary.
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I doubt they know anything for certain yet. As Zathrus said so well, "Saying would be knowing. Do not know, so cannot say."
I'm more interested in what they are dropping. Core 2 Duo? Anything too old for AVX instructions? 32 bit is gone, where will the ax fall next?
And not just CPUs. I finally gave up on the Nvidia GTX 680.
Thanks Ubuntu (Score:2)
I appreciate Ubuntu.
In the early 1990s, having only really used Unix (on a mini computer) to that point as a student, I thought there must be some sort of Unix OS that can be used on a personal computer. I'd heard vaguely news Minix. I hadn't heard about Linux at that time (although it existed).
In the late 1990s someone told me about Linux. I went with the Mandrake distribution. In about 2007 I changed to Ubuntu and have stuck with it ever since.
Linux has that unix philosophy (simple, compact, clear, modula
Applies Liverpool/American accent (Score:2)
Now somewhere in the black mining hills of Dakota...
It always amazes me (Score:3)
Oh how mighty has Ubuntu fallen (Score:3)
First off Snap launches applications 300% to 400% slower and make a new system feel like one from 2016 because of the overhead (there are videos of launching stuff like gedit taking several seconds vs instant on arch).
Second all or I should say most of the Gnutils are being replaced by Rust varients. They are much slower and more buggy as they have not been tested than the ones written in C. Sudo is really SudoRs. My speed compliant could be outdated as this might have been fixed.
Wayland is going to be hell with nvidia users as the driver is not fully Wayland compatible yet as features are missing in display settings. The list goes on ...
I know people were rewritting Gnu utils in Rust as a cool acedemic and learning excersize but people use thse in the real world. There is no reason to change them. Especially if you do not know the algorithms of all the academic contributers. Example in Sed if you do not know how to do efficient search algorithms it will perform like crapy.
I loved Linux and Ubuntyu 20 years ago in 2005. It was the first stable distro with a great desktop. Gnome shell then Gnome 3 ruined it as it is a cell phone on a screen.
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Replacing sudo might have merit because of what it does. But rewriting the rest of the utils in Rust is pretty pointless. I don't know why the speed is so bad with the rust-based utilities, though. Supposedly Rust's safety is compile-time and comes at no runtime cost.
Hope they get their act together (Score:3)
I've been using (K)Ubuntu for a very long while - maybe 15-20 years (Linux user since about 1995). I recently upgraded my desktop from Kubuntu 24.04 LTS to "normal" 25.04. Note that I was already quite unhappy with those effing snaps of Firefox and Thunderbird - seriously, I hate being regularly warned about having to close a program for an update, when I expect to do that precisely for the moments I do an apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. Now, it looks like even things like graphics don't work properly any more, as I get to see spurious horizontal lines depending on my mouse clicks. Seriously? This is sooo basic stuff. Chances are I'll bite the bullet and reinstall, switching back to the base of Ubuntu, i.e. Debian GNU/Linux. Unless I move straight over to Devuan, for that matter. Now get off my lawn.
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Similar history here.
After various distro hops I'd been using mint/mate for years. Installed the latest on my new Framework 13 and it was a disaster. Amongst other problems it kept locking up occasionally needing me to do CTRL-ALT-DEL and going away while it shut down so I could reboot it. I wiped it and installed Debian 13/Mate which has been working absolutely perfectly since it was released.
Can we have a release named ... (Score:2)
mnemonic (Score:2)
If you can't remember "Resolute Raccoon," try the mnemonic "26.04."