On Saturday 18 February 2012 02:48:27 pm Lisi wrote:
> On Saturday 18 February 2012 18:38:00 Kristopher John Gamrat wrote:
> > On Saturday 18 February 2012 06:16:07 am Lisi wrote:
> > > But the OP actually said:
> > >
> > > <quote>
> > > Now, i have to cope with childish names. Even the download page for
> > > Ubuntu uses version numbers, so it�s not even possible for me to decide
> > > which is which.
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > And PLEASE, use version numbers in the future!
> > > </quote>
> >
> > Looking at the main page at trinitydesktop.org, you see "Debian Lenny" and
> > "Debian Squeeze", not "Debian 5.0" and "Debian 6.0". This may be what the
> > OP was referring to. The only reason I know the difference is because I
> > have been using Debian for just under a year. If I hadn't done my research
> > on Debian beforehand, I'd have no inkling of an idea what "Squeeze" and
> > "Lenny" referred to. Since I'm not an Ubuntu user, I have not been keeping
> > track of their code names, so I could not tell you the difference between
> > "Karmic" and "Lucid" except that they are two different versions of Ubuntu,
> > but I do not know what those versions are.
>
> So the Trinity website, not the Ubuntu website, uses names not version
> numbers?
>
> You could say that if you have the right version of Debian or Ubuntu you will
> recognise the name. If you have not got a version, and do not recognise the
> name, you don't want that download anyway.
Even a newbie might not know the difference. Some newbies won't bother with the name, at least not at first. I know I didn't when I first used Debian (and I wasn't exactly a newbie when I did). All I knew was that I was using Debian 5.0, it took me a few weeks to start calling it "Lenny". I didn't care much for what some refer to as "childish nicknames", I only bothered to learn the name so I could communicate with other Debian users.
On Saturday 18 February 2012 02:59:17 pm Lisi wrote:
> On Saturday 18 February 2012 19:29:11 Andy wrote:
> > It can be very confusing. Ubuntu is a little better in this regard because,
> > I believe, the version names have been in alphabetical order. So "Lucid
> > L-whatever" is more recent than "Karmic K-whatever-it-was".
>
> Except for Warty Warthog! That was one of the early ones.before they started
> being in alphabetical order.
>
> I don't use Ubuntu myself, so do not keep track of Ubuntu names. But since I
> don't use it, I don't need to chose a version of Trinity for it. If I used
> it, I would know the name of the version I used. (Or could easily look it up
> on my system.)
>
> I do use Debian, so I know the version names. They don't all have numbers, so
> have to be referred to by name. None out of experimental, Sid and Wheezy has
> a number. By the time that Wheezy is released, we will all have been calling
> it Wheezy for some time. It is easier to continue doing so after release as
> well, even though on release it will acquire a number, presumably 7.0.0.
I thought they did all have numbers? I don't know about the first few releases, but IIRC, Etch was 3.? (I forget the point number).
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Kris Gamrat
Ark Linux webmaster
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