On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 12:21 PM Charles Curley <charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 17:04:57 +0100 > Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> wrote: > > > OK, a question back at you, then: Why do you feel the need to > > remember Debian codenames? > > Imprimis: Because you use the code names as part of configuring > systems, e.g. in /etc/apt/sources.list > > Secundus: Because some utilities and documentation refer only to code > names. > > Tertius: Because many people use the code names, so it is polite to > refer both to version number and code name in communications. > > > To put it another way, do you need to remember that Windows 95 was > > codenamed "Chicago", or that Windows 7 was "Longhorn"? Probably not, > > unless you're a developer of Windows, right? > > Microsoft Windows versioning is not an example of a best practice.
Hear, hear! Is anything they do a best practice nowadays? Most of my interactions with the company are their endless stream of pornographic spam from SharePointOnline.com. Jeff
