Less than 24 hours ago we publish an article talking about the release date of a version of Ubuntu whose animal was going to be furry or something. In it we anticipate that it would not be Hedgegog (hedgehog) or Heron (heron), because they are the two axes they used in the past, but they could be the English words for hyena, horse, hawk, hamster ... or hippopotamus. Whoever said the last one is the one who got it right, because the name of Ubuntu 21.04 will be Hirsute hippo.
So he has made it known martin wimpress, who came into Canonical as a developer of Ubuntu MATE and over time has become a much more important piece that in part works to improve the Ubuntu interface. He has done it with a tweet in which he only says two things: the word "Hirsute" and a GIF of a hippopotamus, although this seems to be a very normal one, and not like what I have added in the header image or what will surely appear as the wallpaper.
Ubuntu 21.04 Hirsute Hippo will be released on April 22, 2021
Hirsute ... pic.twitter.com/lW8L4RsQ8C
- Martin Wimpress (@m_wimpress) October 28, 2020
This time we do not have to explain what a hippo is as we did have to explain that they were, for example, a fossa or a dingo. What we did have to explain is that "Hirsuto" is something with spikes or messy hair, but whatever it is, that will be the name from Ubuntu 21.04.
The shaggy hippo i.e. Ubuntu 21.04 Hirsute Hippo will arrive on April 22, 2021, and at this time little is known about what he will bring under his arm. Yes we can expect it to arrive with GNOME 40 and a version of the kernel that will run on Linux 5.11. For everything else, we will be attentive to the Canonical forums and to developers such as Wimpress, who can anticipate all kinds of news at any time.
What an ugly thing! Good thing I switched to owed 10.