On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 06:41:54PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > 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 >
Doesn't seem the best nomenclature. There is already duplication. A panther is a puma, jaguar, or leopard, depending on location. They'll be in the calicoes and tabbies soon enough, after bobcat and lynx. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101223025346.ga8...@europa.office