Naming Conflicts

April 19, 2004 7:58 AM

Apple:

Cheetah	OS X 10.0
Puma	OS X 10.1
Jaguar	OS X 10.2
Panther	OS X 10.3

Java:

Tiger	JDK 1.5
Cheetah	Eclipse Support for JDK1.5

Could one of the above kindly stop with the big cats, before this gets out of hand and we have to start namespacing project codenames?

Addendum: It's amusing to note that Cheetah was, in fact, the slowest version of OS X. I can understand why they didn't start publicising the cat names until Jaguar.

(Memo to self. Need better default stylesheet for tables)

9 Comments

By Sean Cull on April 19, 2004 10:06 AM

There's always Leopard for the next version of OS X :)

By Alan Green on April 19, 2004 10:24 AM

Apple is running out of cat names. If they don't go to OS X 11.x and a new set of names soon, we're going to have "OS X 10.7, Moggie."

By Charles Miller on April 19, 2004 10:39 AM

And here I was looking forward to "OS X 10.5: Tabby"

By Doug L. on April 20, 2004 4:44 AM

Here's a series of names that they could start using: Firebird, Chimera, Phoenix, Bento, Python ... the only problem is that they'd have to change the name every month or two.

By Rohit on April 20, 2004 5:03 AM

Ok who starts next..i have brought the next series...Iris Setter, BullDog, Blood Hound, Labrador.....and Its under LGPL.....

By Ben Poole on April 20, 2004 8:22 AM

Could get messy with O'Reilly if Apple or Sun go for dog breeds... ;o)

By Macolyte on May 5, 2004 12:33 AM

I vote for Ocelot

By David Pitkin on May 5, 2004 2:21 PM

This problem continues with OS X 10.4 being called Tiger and looks to continue for a while http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2003/07/20030724025054.shtml

By David Pitkin on May 5, 2004 2:23 PM

This problem continues with OS X 10.4 being called Tiger and looks to continue for a while http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2003/07/20030724025054.shtml

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Naming Conflicts

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