Hi , On 21/12/10 10:18, Jim Pazarena wrote:
what possessed the debian people to tack names on to the OS? having actual version/release numbers seems so much clearer. And there does appear to BE release numbers. So why promote the goofy naming system which throws the novice?
do you really think that novices are lost with `goofy name' (as you said) rather than version number ? Novices are generally lost with version numbers. Jerome