ustration
> >> over Debian naming (was: Re: Meltdown fix for wheezy-backports)"
> >> > [...] People use names, computers like numbers.
> >> >
> >>
> >> I do not take sides here, but I can't accept this statement. Numbers
> >> are universal
On 2018-01-13, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat 13 Jan 2018 at 05:14:37 (+0100), Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote:
>> On 12-01-2018, at 15h 03'25", David Wright wrote about "Re: Frustration over
>> Debian naming (was: Re: Meltdown fix for wheezy-ba
On Sat 13 Jan 2018 at 16:56:05 (+), Glenn English wrote:
> Has anyone in this thread mentioned DNS yet?
Quoting RFC 1178:
“There is always room for an exception.
“I don't think any explanation is needed here. However, let me
add that if you later decide to change a name (to
Has anyone in this thread mentioned DNS yet?
--
Glenn English
On Sat 13 Jan 2018 at 05:14:37 (+0100), Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote:
> On 12-01-2018, at 15h 03'25", David Wright wrote about "Re: Frustration over
> Debian naming (was: Re: Meltdown fix for wheezy-backports)"
> > [...] People use names, computers like numbers.
> &g
On Sat, 13 Jan 2018, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> > Some people always seem to remain confused. Perhaps they have
> > the same confusion with timezones, for similar reasons.
>
> Both are confusing. One, Debian has the possibility to improve.
Yes, we could "improve". But for many of us that doesn't
On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 03:03:25PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
Which reason? The formal name of a release is the Release number.
And yet our sources.list files all contain
deb stretch main
and not
deb 9 main
And I had to look up "9" in that wiki page to even make this point.
The
On 13-01-2018, at 09h 07'58", bw wrote about "Re: Frustration over Debian
naming (was: Re: Meltdown fix for wheezy-backports)"
> > On Friday, January 12, 2018 11:14:37 PM Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote:
> > > On 12-01-2018, at 15h 03'25", David Wright wrote about
On Saturday, January 13, 2018 09:07:58 AM bw wrote:
> It is a good point, however have you considered the effect of a visual
> association along with a word and a number? For instance, everytime I
> think of debian "stretch" i see a purple octopus. For "buster" I see a
> yapping little dachshund
On Sat, 13 Jan 2018, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, January 12, 2018 11:14:37 PM Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote:
> > On 12-01-2018, at 15h 03'25", David Wright wrote about "Re: Frustration
> > over Debian naming (was: Re: Meltdown fix for wheezy-backports)&quo
On Friday, January 12, 2018 11:14:37 PM Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote:
> On 12-01-2018, at 15h 03'25", David Wright wrote about "Re: Frustration
> over Debian naming (was: Re: Meltdown fix for wheezy-backports)"
>
> > [...] People use names, computers like numbers.
On 12-01-2018, at 15h 03'25", David Wright wrote about "Re: Frustration over
Debian naming (was: Re: Meltdown fix for wheezy-backports)"
> [...] People use names, computers like numbers.
>
I do not take sides here, but I can't accept this statement. Numbers
are universal,
On Friday, January 12, 2018 04:03:25 PM David Wright wrote:
> Another reason: it's a convention that organisations use
> because it works. It's less ambiguous to write jessie than 8
> especially in contexts where lots of numbers are being discussed,
> and it's more memorable to most people. People
On Fri 12 Jan 2018 at 14:01:34 (+), Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-01-12 at 13:54 +, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 08:49:05AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > But the various names and use of those names gets very frustrating
> > > for me, and
> > > I suspect
On Fri, 2018-01-12 at 13:54 +, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 08:49:05AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > But the various names and use of those names gets very frustrating
> > for me, and
> > I suspect I am not the only one. The numbered versions, the Toy
> > Story
On Friday, January 12, 2018 09:01:34 AM Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-01-12 at 13:54 +, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 08:49:05AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > But the various names and use of those names gets very frustrating
> > > for me, and
> > > I suspect I
On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 08:49:05AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> But the various names and use of those names gets very frustrating for me,
> and
> I suspect I am not the only one. The numbered versions, the Toy Story names,
> and then the testing, stable, old stable, old old stable is
Intentionally cross posted.
On Friday, January 12, 2018 04:58:38 AM Richard Hector wrote:
> Apologies for my misunderstanding. I hadn't made the mental link from
> wheezy to LTS (I don't (think I) have any wheezy machines left myself,
> but have acquired clients who do).
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