The Codename for F12 has been Announced…

And it is:
hippocoon

18 Comments

    1. It's a joke. If you don't think it's funny, you can move along. Sorry.

  1. Sean says:

    That'd be a neat trick since it wasn't even on the voting list. :oP

  2. Sean says:

    Ah, i see, the Hippocoon's name is Constantine…

  3. Seriously? The second part of that is a pretty offensive racial slur in some parts of the world (well, in English as far as I knew, but hey, maybe it's a British thing)

    1. It was a joke. I apologize if the word 'hippo-coon' is a racial slur and you were offended. That was obviously not the point. I have never heard of either part of the word 'hippo-coon' being a racial slur – not in the northeastern US as far as I know at least.
      'Hippo-coon' was a code name that had been proposed but was rejected early in the process.

      1. Stephen Gentle says:

        'Coon' can be a racial slur against people of African decent, but I've only heard of it being used in Australia about Australian Aborigines. It's also the brand name of a cheese here, but that's unrelated – it was (apparently) named after Edward Coon, the creator of a cheese making process, although there has been some controversy about the name…

      2. Rob Taylor says:

        Yeah, my first thought on seeing this (as a brit) was also to the racist implications of the word 'coon' – http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/coon/ . Ah well, you can't go checking for implied racism for all locales…

      3. Oh don't worry, I'm not offended (though I have had that word used 'against' me before…), just seemed a rather risky choice of words!
        Obviously there was no harm meant. I didn't realise it was a joke suggestion, really thought that'd be the F12 codename. And who could blame me after the Ubuntu distro names?

  4. So, enjoying your tablet PC? 😉

  5. Angie says:

    look! It can be retrofitted!

  6. I was crossing my fingers for piranhamoose. Just think of the dual screen monitor wallpaper.
    http://wondermark.com/tag/piranhamoose/

  7. awesome, you are more open mind than ubuntu folks, they rejected "the epileptic elephant". feel free to name F13 like that

  8. Tack says:

    And this is what I thought of: http://cliqueclack.s3.amazonaws.com/tv/wp-content

  9. adam says:

    How can it be? it wasn't legal approved.

    1. It was just a joke. Seriously. See above.

  10. Thanks for sharing

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