I remember Slackware jumping from version 4 to 7 because the lower number led people to believe it was behind what then just "Red Hat Linux".
My one concern though is if Fedora ever decided to do a point release like Slackware does this would lead to confusion. On 01/19/11 08:20, Daniel Drake wrote: > On 18 January 2011 21:27, Peter Robinson<pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> One option we have is to call the new XO-1/XO-1.5 release 11.2.x, >>> leaving 11.1.x free for a possible OLPC XO-1.75 software release based >>> on F12/F13. I think thats the best option we have right now, but might >>> create a bit of confusion as "what happened to 11.1??" >> What about bumping the major release to 14 for the stable XOs and to >> 12/13 for the 1.75 reflecting the Fedora release that its based upon >> and then use the usual 14.1 14.2 etc that way there's no confusion >> based on the underlying os ages and allows the usual point releases. > I like this idea. > > Michael/Scott, I'm sure you were immersed in this conversation the > first time around, I don't suppose you have a little time to comment > on this discussion? Original question: > http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2011-January/030848.html > > Thanks, > Daniel > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel