o Jim Pazarena <debian@paz.bz>: > 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? Rumors are, there is a Debian based operating system out there, that numbers it's releases year/month and gives them alphabetically ascending code names... flori