Re: Debian Version Numbers - My rant on this

1997-08-20 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 19 Aug 97 12:35 PDT, Bruce Perens wrote: So I am running Debian version 1.3 - and yet the CD says Debian 1.3.1 . Oops. My fault. The reason for two numbers is mostly marketing. I know that marketing is anathema to most of us, but someone's gotta do it and I'm afraid the task fell on

Re: Debian Version Numbers - My rant on this

1997-08-20 Thread Anthony Fok
On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: On Tue, 19 Aug 97 12:35 PDT, Bruce Perens wrote: So I am running Debian version 1.3 - and yet the CD says Debian 1.3.1 . Oops. My fault. The reason for two numbers is mostly marketing. I know that marketing is anathema to most of us, but someone's

Re: Debian Version Numbers - My rant on this

1997-08-20 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 19 Aug 1997 17:47:12 -0600 (MDT), Anthony Fok wrote: On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: On Tue, 19 Aug 97 12:35 PDT, Bruce Perens wrote: So I am running Debian version 1.3 - and yet the CD says Debian 1.3.1 . Oops. My fault. The reason for two numbers is mostly marketing. I

Re: Debian Version Numbers - My rant on this

1997-08-20 Thread Dan Irvin
-- From: Dave Cinege [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian Version Numbers - My rant on this Date: Tuesday, August 19, 1997 8:20 PM On Tue, 19 Aug 97 12:35 PDT, Bruce Perens wrote: So I am running Debian

Re: Debian Version Numbers - My rant on this

1997-08-20 Thread Syd Alsobrook
The way I see it is this. On ftp.debian.org there is a directory called bo-updates in there are all of the updates, with the changes info, that have happened since the last major release. Ok, so here is my point, since any changes that are done are announced via the debian-changes list why do we

Re: Debian Version Numbers - My rant on this

1997-08-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
To make a too long thread even longer: On Aug 19, Dave Cinege wrote: On Tue, 19 Aug 97 12:35 PDT, Bruce Perens wrote: So I am running Debian version 1.3 - and yet the CD says Debian 1.3.1 . Oops. My fault. The reason for two numbers is mostly marketing. I know that marketing is anathema