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? This was all fought out on debian-devel many years ago. No point in bringing it up now. All the discussion is in the archive. I suggest that you don't read it. -- John Hasler