On Sun, 2011-02-01 at 10:27 -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > - What was the first production release of Linux? > - At what point was each of the above declared a "production > release"; > was it concurrent with the release, or some time afterwards?
Linus declared what his goals for 1.0 were and started a 0.9x series. I think the transition was something like 0.12 -> 0.95 but when I started using linux it was about 0.99c or so. I started in December and the 1.0 was some time the following summer. I think the 0.95 (or whatever) was about August/September. Debian's first public release was something like 0.94rc6 but their version numbers now look like: 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 5.1 ... I think freezing a subset of what you eventually want to have and then getting as close as you can on a fairly tight schedule is the best way to get buy-in from users. Debian has a pretty good way to do this. Except for release-critical bugs, I think they eventually just push all the rest into the next release aobut a week before they publish the final product. I know that this description is imprecise but you can see it what they really do in their bug graphs. -- --gh
