I know that the Ubuntu names follow alphabetical order. Example: 12.04 was precise pangolin; 14.04 was trusty tahr; 16.04 is xenial xerus; 16.10 is yakkety yak. My question is, what's coming after we pass 'Z'? What will they do for 17.10 and 18.04 LTS?

P.S.: I did read What will happen when the Code Names of the Ubuntu releases get to Z. If you want to dupe this, go ahead, but the remember that the answers back then were totally speculative. One person even suggested the world might have ended by then. Is this really a duplicate?

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It's just a name and probably they will break the rule and make up a new rule, but definitely there is no relation between Ubuntu and the end of the world.

Maybe they will start using double letter prefixes, similar to column 27 of a spreadsheet. Aardvark, abalone, accentor, etc.