Apple's Future OS X Names May Include Yosemite, Mammoth, Big Sur, Redwood, Pacific, and More

[ibphd]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_versioning#Incrementing_sequences

While this Wikipedia article describes two methods for software versioning, the second of which conforms to your limited view of how numbers can be used, the first method is a widely accepted convention.

How bout "Ten Ten"

 

[doug in albq]

All future OS X names:

Amsterdam
Angels Camp
Aromas
Avocado
Azusa
Badger
Badwater
Bagdad
Bath
Bee Rock
Ben Hur
Bend
Big Bunch
Birds Landing
Bivalve
Blinzing
Bliss
Blue Tent
Blunt
Boiling Point
Bombay
Booneville
Bootjack
Bully Hill
Bumblebee
Bummerville
Burnt Ranch
Cabbage Patch
Cactus
Cactus City
Calexico
Canyondam
Card Place.
Challenge
Chiquita
Clipper Gap
Coffee
Coffee Creek
Concepcion
Condemned Bar
Confidence
Convict Lake Cool
Copperopolis
Corning
Cow Creek
Coyote Wells
Crockett
Crown Jewel
Cuba
Dairyville
Date City
Dead Man Crossing
Deadwood
Desert Relief
Devil Canyon
Devils Den
Devils Elbow
Dew Drop
Diamond Bar
Dixieland
Doghouse Junction
Dogtown
Dunmovin
Eureka
5 Brooks
Fair Play
Fallen Leaf
False Klamath
Forks of Salmon
Fort Dick
Freedom
Fruitland
Frying Pan
Gas Point
Globe
Grand
Hallelujah Junction
Hardy
Harmony
Hellhole Palms
Hells Kitchen
Honda
Honeydew
Hooker
Idlewild
Igo
Java
Jupiter
Keg
King Salmon
Klondike
Last Chance
Laws
Little Penny
Luckie Place
Lumpkin
Mad River
Magnet
Mammoth Lakes
Manlove
Mars
Michigan Bar
Michopdo
Mineral King.
Minnesota
Mishopshnow
Missouri Triangle
Moccasin
Mormon Bar
Mystic
Nashville
Needles
Nevada
New Blinzing
Newlove
Nipinnawasee
Nipomo
No Mirage
Nut Tree
Ocean Roar
Ohm
Ojai
Old Corral
Ono
Oregon House
Otay
Owl
Oxnard
Panama
Paymaster Landing
Peanut
Pettyjohn Place
Plaster City
Poker Flat
Pole Garden
Poverty Hill
Priest
Prize
Pushawalla Palms
Ragtown
Rainbow
Rancho Cucamonga
Red Dog
Reefer City
Relief
Rescue
Rio Bravo
Roads End
Robbers Creek
Rodeo
Rough and Ready
Sargent
Scarface
Secret Town
Shrub
Siberia
Skidoo
Sky High
Skytop
Soapweed
Soda Springs
Squabbletown
Standish
Steam
Stone
Stovepipe
Strawberry
Sucker Flat
Surf
Surfside
Surprise
Tarzana
Teakettle Junction
Thorn
Timbuctoo
Toadtown
Truths Home
Volcano
Weed
Weedpatch
Wimp
You Bet
Yreka Zzyzx

 

[GenesisST]

The names aren't that bad, but are they really about to make a mockery of the decimal system? 10.10 is mathematically identical to 10.1...

Version numbers are NOT decimal numbers...

To myself: keep calm, breath in, breath out...

 

[ibphd]

All future OS X names:

Amsterdam
Angels Camp
Aromas
Avocado
Azusa
Badger
Badwater
Bagdad
Bath
Bee Rock
Ben Hur
Bend
Big Bunch
Birds Landing
Bivalve
Blinzing
Bliss
Blue Tent
Blunt
Boiling Point
Bombay
Booneville
Bootjack
Bully Hill
Bumblebee
Bummerville
Burnt Ranch
Cabbage Patch
Cactus
Cactus City
Calexico
Canyondam
Card Place.
Challenge
Chiquita
Clipper Gap
Coffee
Coffee Creek
Concepcion
Condemned Bar
Confidence
Convict Lake Cool
Copperopolis
Corning
Cow Creek
Coyote Wells
Crockett
Crown Jewel
Cuba
Dairyville
Date City
Dead Man Crossing
Deadwood
Desert Relief
Devil Canyon
Devils Den
Devils Elbow
Dew Drop
Diamond Bar
Dixieland
Doghouse Junction
Dogtown
Dunmovin
Eureka
5 Brooks
Fair Play
Fallen Leaf
False Klamath
Forks of Salmon
Fort Dick
Freedom
Fruitland
Frying Pan
Gas Point
Globe
Grand
Hallelujah Junction
Hardy
Harmony
Hellhole Palms
Hells Kitchen
Honda
Honeydew
Hooker
Idlewild
Igo
Java
Jupiter
Keg
King Salmon
Klondike
Last Chance
Laws
Little Penny
Luckie Place
Lumpkin
Mad River
Magnet
Mammoth Lakes
Manlove
Mars
Michigan Bar
Michopdo
Mineral King.
Minnesota
Mishopshnow
Missouri Triangle
Moccasin
Mormon Bar
Mystic
Nashville
Needles
Nevada
New Blinzing
Newlove
Nipinnawasee
Nipomo
No Mirage
Nut Tree
Ocean Roar
Ohm
Ojai
Old Corral
Ono
Oregon House
Otay
Owl
Oxnard
Panama
Paymaster Landing
Peanut
Pettyjohn Place
Plaster City
Poker Flat
Pole Garden
Poverty Hill
Priest
Prize
Pushawalla Palms
Ragtown
Rainbow
Rancho Cucamonga
Red Dog
Reefer City
Relief
Rescue
Rio Bravo
Roads End
Robbers Creek
Rodeo
Rough and Ready
Sargent
Scarface
Secret Town
Shrub
Siberia
Skidoo
Sky High
Skytop
Soapweed
Soda Springs
Squabbletown
Standish
Steam
Stone
Stovepipe
Strawberry
Sucker Flat
Surf
Surfside
Surprise
Tarzana
Teakettle Junction
Thorn
Timbuctoo
Toadtown
Truths Home
Volcano
Weed
Weedpatch
Wimp
You Bet
Yreka Zzyzx

I vote for

Death Valley

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Also, isn't the accepted abbreviation for Albuquerque "ABQ".

 

[Yvan256]

OS X Eccleston

OS X Smith

 

[zhivkom]

Stop with those stupid 10.1= 10.10 mathematically and so on...
I think it's time to separate from Mac OS X(when X=10) to the new name =
OS X(when X= letter X)
X marks the spot for a new beginning. Apple already made the shift.

 

[Decimotox]

OS X Sequoia? Perhaps too obscure. OS X Catalina.

OS X ****in Catalina Wine Mixer!

 

[doug in albq]

I vote for

Death Valley

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Also, isn't the accepted abbreviation for Albuquerque "ABQ".

One cannot change their user-name on MR. I moved out of "Duke City" years ago...

I also like the name of the San Diego suburb I was raised in...POWAY.

OS X Poway for the win.

 

[MisakixMikasa]

I don't know if I count, as I'm only in the UK and not too far away, but Mavericks is as easy to remember as any big cat name.

I am Chinese. While Mavericks isn't hard to remember, but Yosemite, Big Sur, Mammoth are hard for me to remember, especially spelling.

 

[Eric5h5]

I think Apple's having a hard time getting rid of that cool X. By most normal versioning standards, which up the number after any huge architectural changes, OSX should be OSXII by this point at least. The big Intel switch should've been OSXI, and Lion should've been XII.

No, because "OS X" is a name.

--Eric

 

[scottsjack]

I'm all or the new names. 

I'm all for operating systems that are refined and have most of the bugs worked out of them. If an OS stays around of two or three years and becomes very solid I am pleased.

I'll be glad when the yearly OS fashion show faze that Apple and wannabe Microsoft are currently engaged in is over.

 

[KieranDotW]

I thought they'd just do California beach names. Mavericks, Huntington, Santa Monica, Manhattan, etc.

 

[hkenneth]

I really liked the cat names...

 

[jobesucks]

I really couldnt care less what they call it. just fix smb and cups

 

[koban4max]

how about OS X: Pathetic

 

[Renzatic]

No, because "OS X" is a name.

--Eric

So was OS9.

 

[iBlazed]

I really hate the arrogant California ego-centrism.
Queue the song 'Take California' from the Propellerheads.

Update: Link to 1st iPod Ad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo-2aDs8160

Sounds like a you problem.

 

[iMouse]

I'd be upset if...

...I couldn't run OS X 10.10 Yosemite on my G3 Yosemite.

http://apple-history.com/g3blue

 

[hsotnicam8002]

So it's possible to trademark the dictionary then? Microcroft will obvious have trademarked *************.

 

[S3R6i0]

I'm sorry, but this California landmark thing was ridiculous from the start. Am I the only one here? Seriously, OS X Yosemite? What dork thought of this idea.

 

[ibphd]

Poway

One cannot change their user-name on MR. I moved out of "Duke City" years ago...

I also like the name of the San Diego suburb I was raised in...POWAY.

OS X Poway for the win.

I have friends there so I know Poway well. I've spent several lifetimes there one weekend. Also, I could live with OSX Poway. And I still live in the Duke city, But I can hear Los Lunes calling me home.

Damn, after re reading the last paragraph I really gotta take my meds.

 

[Jacksonc]

I vote for

Death Valley
.

And it could even be shortened to OS X Death...

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I like Mojave, Golden Gate, Mammoth, and Whitney. That's all I can think of for now.

 

[0007776]

The names aren't that bad, but are they really about to make a mockery of the decimal system? 10.10 is mathematically identical to 10.1...

As has been gone over again and again software version numbers are not decimal, otherwise we never would have had 10.4.10.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

If they ever do OSX El Centro, I think I'll switch to Windows. ;-)

 

[Parasprite]

So in that case, iPhone OS 3 is half of iOS 6?

Actually, no. iPhone OS 3 would be a complex version due to the imaginary component while an iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch's iOS 6 would actually be real since the imaginary numbers would actually cancel each other out.

As has been gone over again and again software version numbers are not decimal, otherwise we never would have had 10.4.10.

Pssst.... That post has been quoted over a dozen times in this thread, which makes your post somewhat ironic.