[PLUG] 8.0 + 0.1 (?) = 9.0

[AthlonRob]

On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 14:15, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Rich Shepard wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps they want to jump ahead of S.u.S.E. and catch up with
> > Slackware.
> 
> Regarding SuSE, it'd only be fair: it artifically upped an early 
> release to 4.2, which <hint><nudge>coincidentally</nudge></hint> was 
> the number of the current Red Hat release.
> 
> I haven't followed Slackware numbering; it used to be a year (e.g., 
> Slackware '96), and I'm not sure when it changed.

Slackware pulled an SuSE, jumping from 4.0 to 7.0 (to keep up with SuSE,
RedHat, and Mandrake).

ftp.kpn.be has a whole lot of old Slackware versions up... it goes
1.1.2, 2.0.1, 2.2.0, 2.3, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.9, 4.0,
7.0, 7.1, 8.0, 8.1, then 9.0 was released last week.

I think any date names (like Slackware '96) were probably a nickname
type thing.... it was before I found The Way.  :-)

Rob