With Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr rolled out you must be wondering why Canonical Ltd, the developer of Ubuntu operating system named it Trusty Tahr. Canonical releases a new version of Ubuntu semi-annually and each version is given a codename which is a combination of an adjective and an animal with the same first letter. The version number denotes the year and the month of the release.
Trusty Tahr - an adjective + an animal with the same first letter. 14.04 signifies that it was released in 2014 in the month of April.
Ubuntu Naming Conventions
| Version | Adjective | Animal |
| 4.10 | Warty | Warthog |
| 5.04 | Hoary | Hedgehog |
| 5.10 | Breezy | Badger |
| 6.06 LTS | Dapper | Drake |
| 6.10 | Edgy | Eft |
| 7.04 | Feisty | Fawn |
| 7.10 | Gutsy | Gibbon |
| 8.04 LTS | Hardy | Heron |
| 8.10 | Intrepid | Ibex |
| 9.04 | Jaunty | Jackalope |
| 9.10 | Karmic | Koala |
| 10.04 LTS | Lucid | Lynx |
| 10.10 | Maverick | Meerkat |
| 11.04 | Natty | Narwhal |
| 11.10 | Oneiric | Ocelot |
| 12.04 LTS | Precise | Pangolin |
| 12.10 | Quantaal | Quetzal |
| 13.04 | Raring | Ringtail |
| 13.10 | Saucy | Salamander |
| 14.04 LTS | Trusty | Tahr |
| 14.10 | Utopic | Unicorn |
LTS is Long Term Support i.e. Canonical will provide updates to that version for a period of 5 years and paid support is available. Each forth release is a Long Term Support release or you can say the 1st year release in the even year is a Long Term Support Ubuntu release.
If we leave the first two versions, the rest are in the alphabetical order. You can read a detail release information of each version of Ubuntu on Wikipedia.
Other Linux distributions like LinuxMint also has codename logic. Read here: Version numbers and Codename logic in Linux mint.
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