Re: debian version conventions
"Fethi A. Okyar" wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> want to bring the insane naming convention into argument here
> for one second.
>
> This remains to be a mystery for me, I don't know hw I ended up
> confusing all the names, slink potato, hamm, beef, etc.. Now I
> go down to the source (i.e. ftp.debian.org) and try to figure out
> which kernel version is used in which name by looking at base
> packages.
>
> Can somebody clear this out by pointing the stable, unstable and
> old kernel versions, sorry for valuable cputimes I am consuming,
> Is there any plan on keeping this naming convention??
>
That's very simple Fethi: if the x from 2.x.n is ODD, then the kernel is
unstable, if its even, then its stable!
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