Re: lenny squeeze etc etc
Justin The Cynical <cynical@penguinness.org> wrote:
>On 12/20/2010 20:45, Petrus Validus wrote:
>> 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...
>
>Or Microsoft with longhorn, blackcomb, mantis, and so on.
>
>Heck, for that matter, Linus named one of the kernel releases something along the lines of 'rabid badger' (it was in the readme, wish I had kept it as I can't find any reference to it now).
Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_kernel_names
However, these names are negligible compared to Pan:
http://pan.rebelbase.com/
How about Release 0.105: "When Churchill opened the door, it was a new car, a
Chevrolet Nova."?
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