18 Feb
2012
18 Feb
'12
11:26 p.m.
On Saturday 18 February 2012 02:48:27 pm Lisi wrote:
On Saturday 18 February 2012 18:38:00 Kristopher John
Gamrat wrote:
Even a newbie might not know the difference. Some newbies won't bother with the name,
at least not at first. I know I didn't when I first used Debian (and I wasn't
exactly a newbie when I did). All I knew was that I was using Debian 5.0, it took me a few
weeks to start calling it "Lenny". I didn't care much for what some refer to
as "childish nicknames", I only bothered to learn the name so I could
communicate with other Debian users.
On Saturday 18 February 2012 02:59:17 pm Lisi wrote:
On Saturday 18 February 2012 06:16:07 am Lisi
wrote:
So the Trinity website, not the Ubuntu website, uses names not version
numbers?
You could say that if you have the right version of Debian or Ubuntu you will
recognise the name. If you have not got a version, and do not recognise the
name, you don't want that download anyway. But the OP actually said:
<quote>
Now, i have to cope with childish names. Even the download page for
Ubuntu uses version numbers, so it´s not even possible for me to decide
which is which.
[snip]
And PLEASE, use version numbers in the future!
</quote>
Looking at the main page at trinitydesktop.org, you see "Debian Lenny" and
"Debian Squeeze", not "Debian 5.0" and "Debian 6.0". This
may be what the
OP was referring to. The only reason I know the difference is because I
have been using Debian for just under a year. If I hadn't done my research
on Debian beforehand, I'd have no inkling of an idea what "Squeeze" and
"Lenny" referred to. Since I'm not an Ubuntu user, I have not been keeping
track of their code names, so I could not tell you the difference between
"Karmic" and "Lucid" except that they are two different versions of
Ubuntu,
but I do not know what those versions are. On Saturday 18 February 2012 19:29:11 Andy wrote:
I thought they did all have numbers? I don't know about the first few releases, but
IIRC, Etch was 3.? (I forget the point number).
--
Kris Gamrat
Ark Linux webmaster
http://www.arklinux.org/
It can be very confusing. Ubuntu is a little
better in this regard because,
I believe, the version names have been in alphabetical order. So "Lucid
L-whatever" is more recent than "Karmic K-whatever-it-was".
Except for Warty Warthog! That was one of the early ones.before they started
being in alphabetical order.
I don't use Ubuntu myself, so do not keep track of Ubuntu names. But since I
don't use it, I don't need to chose a version of Trinity for it. If I used
it, I would know the name of the version I used. (Or could easily look it up
on my system.)
I do use Debian, so I know the version names. They don't all have numbers, so
have to be referred to by name. None out of experimental, Sid and Wheezy has
a number. By the time that Wheezy is released, we will all have been calling
it Wheezy for some time. It is easier to continue doing so after release as
well, even though on release it will acquire a number, presumably 7.0.0.