Things as they are. It's hard to remember all the names Canonical has used over the past nearly 20 years, at two a year. For this reason, I was surprised to learn the code name of Ubuntu 23.10, the version that will arrive in October of this year. The tradition is to use the name of an animal found in Africa and an adjective that goes with it, both beginning with the same letter, but the truth is that it is a tradition that has not always been respected.
Ubuntu 23.04 will be codenamed Mantic Minotaur (only Mantic internally). A minotaur is not a real animal, so it is not found in Africa or anywhere else in this universe. It can be found in video games, like in a God of War Chains of Olympus that made it difficult for me at the Spartan level.
Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur
Minotaur is a greek mythology monster, and he has the body of a man (a very big man in the God of War videogames…) and the head of a bull. He was locked in the labyrinth that Daedalus created to hold him. On the other hand, Mantic does not have a direct translation into Spanish. Google Translate translates it as "mantic", but that word does not exist. yes it exists mantic, and it is a word that comes from the Greek and whose definition is «Set of practices through which it was tried to guess the future«. Therefore, we could say that it is a futurologist minotaur or something like that.
And about the animals, among their names we find a unicorn (14.10) and a werewolf (15.10). Also, a dingo usually found in Australia. So we cannot say that any tradition has been broken, although at first it seemed so because our memory did not want to give us a hand.
Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur It will arrive in October this year., and about its news we can only say that it will use GNOME 45, a kernel that will be, more or less, between Linux 6.5 and 6.6 and some improvements, such as adding by default an extension for stacking windows.