LIGER!

The future
I’ve been clickin’ away on Leopard now for almost a week and so far so good. I’m gonna drive it around a bit more before officially reviewing it, but thanks to Juan Puto (of Turdlog and Foolish Foto fame), I’ve decided to use this time to throw my prediction together for the names of the last four OS Xs (that “X” is a “TEN” not an “ECKS” for those of you outside the Apple reality distortion field… hence there are only four left).

To carry on the big(ish) cat thing:

10.6 — Lynx (Sounds cool, even though it was a lame car)
10.7 — Cougar (Yes, the Cougar and the Puma are the same thing, but Apple has the trademark and they’re not gonna miss out on using it… also a car, but less lame than the Lynx)
10.8 — Ocelot (Running out of cats. A stretch to be sure, but they aren’t gonna blow their wad with “Lion” until the last one… and “Bobcat” ain’t cool enough sounding (sorry Charlotte, Texas State, et al). And a bobcat is a lynx… they’re not gonna pull that crap again after the whole Puma/Cougar fiasco)
10.9 — Lion (Duh… the king)

The future -er
So when OS XI or 11 or whatever comes out… what will those releases be named for?

Dogs? Snakes? Birds? Sharks? Imaginary animals? (Hello!… Liger, Cerebus, Pegasus, Phoenix, Successful Republicans, Orko!)

Only time will tell (my guess is that they’ll switch to non animals… cities perhaps?).

How cool would “Mac OS 11.9 Austin” be?