Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?
On 3 Aug 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> I think I am really grateful for not having people like that
> trying Debian; it only increases the support headaches later on. Any
> one who is, umm, challenged, enough to make any technical decision
> based on version numbering would probably find Debian is not the
> right distribution for them.
>
Some of these people are highly skilled Solaris system administrators that
do not understand the concept of the different distributions and
versioning until I explain it to them. All they know at first glance is
Debian is shipping 2.0 Linux while Red Hat is shipping 5.2 Linux so they
think Debian is sorely out of date.
Things that result in major version releases of Red Hat result in minor
version releases of Debian while things that result in minor version
releases in Red Hat increment the patch level in Debian.
Debian has no clear rule on what constitutes a major version ... it is
subjective and arbitrary.
George Bonser
Microsoft! Which end of the stick do you want today?
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