On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 18:18 -0800, 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? Don't forget Apple's OS X: Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, etc... -- Petrus Validus Petrus.Validus@gmail.com If there isn't a way, I'll make one.