On Saturday 18 February 2012 02:48:27 pm Lisi wrote:
On Saturday 18 February 2012 18:38:00 Kristopher John Gamrat wrote:
On Saturday 18 February 2012 06:16:07 am Lisi wrote:
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!
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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.
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.
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 19:29:11 Andy wrote:
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.
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).