18 Feb
2012
18 Feb
'12
7:59 p.m.
On Saturday 18 February 2012 19:29:11 Andy wrote:
On Saturday 18 February 2012 01:38:00 pm Kristopher
John Gamrat 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 have just discovered that version 1.1.3 of vlc is called "The Luggage".
Presumably from the Terry Pratchet novels.
Car names are no better. Perhaps all geeks are small boys at heart. (Us too,
before feminists do battle!)
Lisi
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.