[PLUG] Visualizing debian releases (fwd)

[Percival, Ray]

The names are codes most software companies use them. It is just that Debian uses them in a very public way whereas for other projects they tend to not be used so publicy. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Russell Senior 
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 11:13 PM
To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Visualizing debian releases (fwd)


>>>>> "Tyler" == Tyler F Creelan <creelan at engr.orst.edu> writes:

Tyler> FYI, here's a graph posted to debian-users showing how the
Tyler> debian releases are organized.

As a happy Debian user, I've got to say that this "release naming" is
one of the most inexplicably designed things I've ever seen.  Don't
they know the difference between a "nominal" and "ordinal" scale?  If
there is an order to releases, as there clearly is, they ought not to
be named nominally.  Maybe it just because I never saw "Toy Story",
but it constantly annoys me.

-- 
Russell Senior         ``I've seen every kind of critter God ever made,
seniorr at aracnet.com      and I ain't never seen a meaner, lower, more
                         stinkin' yellow hypocrite than you!'' 
                                        -- Burl Ives as Rufus Hennessy

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