Hi, On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 05:38:04PM +1300, Corrin Lakeland wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, 08 Jan 2003 16:44, Don Armstrong wrote: > > On Wed, 08 Jan 2003, Corrin Lakeland wrote: > > > Personally I prefer just calling things by the year they're > > > released and forgetting about version numbers entirely. > > > and no one has really given any decent technical (or even social) > > reason why we shouldn't stick with the status quo. > > Say someone new to Linux goes to the library and sees in the catalogue > copies of RH6 and Debian 3. Which is the more recent? Say they pick RH6 > and get it installed, compared to their XP installation it looks old > and primitive. With years instead of versions, this problem is avoided. Just mentioning the release date in big bold letters on the box also solves that problem, in a far less intrusive way. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies / Emile van Bergen | emile@e-advies.info tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 | http://www.e-advies.info
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