Re: lenny squeeze etc etc

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Darac Marjal wrote:
> On 22/12/10 16:47, John Hasler wrote:
>    
> > > Out of curiosity why don't Windows and Mac count?
> > >        
> > The companies spend billions hammering the code name/number for the next
> > version into everyone's head before releasing it.  Despite never having
> > used Windows even I know that Microsoft's current OS release is Windows
> > 7 and the the previous one was Vista.  I don't know what Apple calls
> > their current version, though.
> >      
> Apple are still on version 10. They same as it's been for the last 10 years.
>    
Wow.. it really has been that long.  OS X (10) was the shift to a Mach 
Kernel and BSD based platform.  Major releases (courtesy of WikiPedia):

   * Mac OS X Public Beta
     <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Public_Beta> "Kodiak"
   * Mac OS X v10.0 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_v10.0> "Cheetah"
   * Mac OS X v10.1 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_v10.1> "Puma"
   * Mac OS X v10.2 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_v10.2> "Jaguar"
   * Mac OS X v10.3 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_v10.3> "Panther"
   * Mac OS X v10.4 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_v10.4> "Tiger"
   * Mac OS X v10.5 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_v10.5> "Leopard"
   * Mac OS X v10.6 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_v10.6> "Snow
     Leopard" - current
   * Mac OS X v10.7 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_v10.7>
     "Lion" - upcoming


Miles Fidelman

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