On Mi, 22 dec 10, 08:27:38, John Hasler wrote:
Lisi writes:
It is, however, easier if the names are in some easily remembered
progression (e.g. Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty etc.) than if they are
random (Woody, Sarge, Etch, Lenny ...)
They are characters from the movie Toy Story. I've never
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:30:33AM EST, John Hasler wrote:
[..]
I have not seen a movie in more than twenty years and probably never
will see one again.
I find the entire entertainment industry and everyone associated with
it faintly disgusting, and, in any case, like popular music, movies
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 06:41:54PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Darac Marjal wrote:
On 22/12/10 16:47, John Hasler wrote:
Out of curiosity why don't Windows and Mac count?
The companies spend billions hammering the code name/number for the next
version into everyone's head before releasing
John Hasler put forth on 12/22/2010 10:35 AM:
Lisi writes:
But I don't see how that is supposed to make it easy to remember them!
You are supposed to have seen the movie nine times and been so thrilled
with the special effects that you memorized the list of characters.
The number of
Dne, 22. 12. 2010 17:30:33 je John Hasler napisal(a):
Petrus Validus writes:
The Toy Story movies are good, I would recommend them.
I have not seen a movie in more than twenty years and probably never
will see one again. I find the entire entertainment industry and
everyone associated with it
Darac Marjal put forth on 12/22/2010 3:14 PM:
On 22/12/10 16:47, John Hasler wrote:
Out of curiosity why don't Windows and Mac count?
The companies spend billions hammering the code name/number for the next
version into everyone's head before releasing it. Despite never having
used Windows
Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Both the Linux kernel and Postfix follow the same trend. Both have been
on major revision 2 for---ever now. Considering the way the versioning
is done on both Linux and Postfix, there will never be a 3.x release of
either, as the core architecture will never undergo
On 23 December 2010 21:20, Andrew McGlashan
andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au wrote:
I think you will find that the kernel will advance as I understand it,
the 2.6 is the current normal branch and 2.7 is development, once 2.7
makes it to 2.8, then 2.9 will be dev . 3.0 / 3.1 and
In 4d13308c.2060...@affinityvision.com.au, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Both the Linux kernel and Postfix follow the same trend. Both have been
on major revision 2 for---ever now. Considering the way the versioning
is done on both Linux and Postfix, there will never be a 3.x
On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 23:24:25 +1000
Adrian Levi adrian.l...@gmail.com wrote:
On 23 December 2010 21:20, Andrew McGlashan
andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au wrote:
I think you will find that the kernel will advance as I understand it,
the 2.6 is the current normal branch and 2.7 is
On Tuesday 21 December 2010 22:16:42 Mark Goldshtein wrote:
It is, however, easier if the names are in some easily remembered progression
(e.g. Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty etc.) than if they are random (Woody, Sarge,
Etch, Lenny ...)
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I always found Ubuntu's system more confusing in terms of
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:09:39 -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote:
On 2010-12-21 2:16 PM, Mark Goldshtein wrote:
I am just curious, how novices 'get lost' with, for example, Debian
Stable 2011? Of course, after that, you may add 6.0 and Squeeze
and whatever the Team wants, for example, full GNU v3
To me, it seems reasonable to talk about this as newcomers (me included)
are not aware of the inners of these naming decisions, but my vote would
go for the current system.
[SNIP]
Camaleón
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Camaleón, a newcommer???
I just don't see that, you are able to like help almost everybody who
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:42:39 +, teddieeb wrote:
To me, it seems reasonable to talk about this as newcomers (me included)
are not aware of the inners of these naming decisions, but my vote would
go for the current system.
[SNIP]
Camaleón
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Camaleón, a newcommer???
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o Jim Pazarena deb...@paz.bz:
what possessed the debian people to tack names on to the OS?
having actual version/release numbers seems so much clearer.
And there does appear to BE release numbers. So why promote the
goofy naming system which throws the novice?
Rumors are, there is a Debian
Rumors are, there is a Debian based operating system out there,
that numbers it's releases year/month and gives them
alphabetically ascending code names...
flori
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On 12/22/2010 3:44 PM, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote:
Rumors are, there is a Debian based operating system out there,
that numbers it's releases year/month and gives them
alphabetically ascending code names...
can you let's us know the name of that new Debian based OS?
flori
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My experience is with Suse (all numbers) and FreeBSD (all numbers).
Wind$ws doesn't count! And, for that matter, Mac doesn't count.
Out of curiosity why don't Windows and Mac count?
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Lisi writes:
It is, however, easier if the names are in some easily remembered
progression (e.g. Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty etc.) than if they are
random (Woody, Sarge, Etch, Lenny ...)
They are characters from the movie Toy Story. I've never seen it, but
I got the impression back when the
They are characters from the movie Toy Story. I've never seen it, but
I got the impression back when the decision to use them was made that
the progression is obvious if you have.
The Toy Story movies are good, I would recommend them.
BTW what is Ubuntu going to do after Zoftig Zebra?
On Wednesday 22 December 2010 14:27:38 John Hasler wrote:
Lisi writes:
It is, however, easier if the names are in some easily remembered
progression (e.g. Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty etc.) than if they are
random (Woody, Sarge, Etch, Lenny ...)
They are characters from the movie Toy Story.
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:23:16 +
Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday 22 December 2010 14:27:38 John Hasler wrote:
Lisi writes:
It is, however, easier if the names are in some easily remembered
progression (e.g. Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty etc.) than if they are
random (Woody,
Petrus Validus writes:
The Toy Story movies are good, I would recommend them.
I have not seen a movie in more than twenty years and probably never
will see one again. I find the entire entertainment industry and
everyone associated with it faintly disgusting, and, in any case, like
popular
Lisi writes:
But I don't see how that is supposed to make it easy to remember them!
You are supposed to have seen the movie nine times and been so thrilled
with the special effects that you memorized the list of characters.
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John Hasler wrote:
Lisi writes:
But I don't see how that is supposed to make it easy to remember them!
You are supposed to have seen the movie nine times and been so thrilled
with the special effects that you memorized the list of characters.
Ahhh... so that's an essential
Out of curiosity why don't Windows and Mac count?
The companies spend billions hammering the code name/number for the next
version into everyone's head before releasing it. Despite never having
used Windows even I know that Microsoft's current OS release is Windows
7 and the the previous one
I wrote:
You are supposed to have seen the movie nine times and been so thrilled
with the special effects that you memorized the list of characters.
Miles Fidelman writes:
Ahhh... so that's an essential qualification for using Debian? :-)
Can't be. I use it.
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From: petrus.vali...@gmail.com
To: jhas...@debian.org
Subject: Re: lenny squeeze etc etc
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:05:07 -0500
They are characters from the movie Toy Story. I've never seen
it, but
I got the impression back when the decision to use them was made
Miles Fidelman writes:
Ahhh... so that's an essential qualification for using Debian? :-)
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Well, Technically, Squeeze could mean a lot of things to a lot of diffrent
people...
Just putting that out there
I've gone way past helpful this time;
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How about double wrapping as in AAron AArdvark
I like it! :D
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On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:27:38 -0600
John Hasler jhas...@debian.org wrote:
Lisi writes:
It is, however, easier if the names are in some easily remembered
progression (e.g. Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty etc.) than if they are
random (Woody, Sarge, Etch, Lenny ...)
They are characters from the
On 22/12/10 16:47, John Hasler wrote:
Out of curiosity why don't Windows and Mac count?
The companies spend billions hammering the code name/number for the next
version into everyone's head before releasing it. Despite never having
used Windows even I know that Microsoft's current OS
Darac Marjal wrote:
On 22/12/10 16:47, John Hasler wrote:
Out of curiosity why don't Windows and Mac count?
The companies spend billions hammering the code name/number for the next
version into everyone's head before releasing it. Despite never having
used Windows even I know that
Dne, 21. 12. 2010 03:45:51 je Jerome BENOIT napisal(a):
Hi ,
On 21/12/10 10:18, Jim Pazarena wrote:
what possessed the debian people to tack names on to the OS?
having actual version/release numbers seems so much clearer.
And there does appear to BE release numbers. So why promote the
goofy
Justin The Cynical cyni...@penguinness.org wrote:
On 12/20/2010 20:45, Petrus Validus wrote:
On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 18:18 -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote:
what possessed the debian people to tack names on to the OS?
having actual version/release numbers seems so much clearer.
And there does appear to
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:18:37 -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote:
what possessed the debian people to tack names on to the OS? having
actual version/release numbers seems so much clearer. And there does
appear to BE release numbers. So why promote the goofy naming system
which throws the novice?
I
Bob Proulx wrote:
Additionally in Debian the release number doesn't really figure into
package upgrades. It doesn't matter that Lenny is 5 and Squeeze is 6
because the upgrade happens at the package level and every package has
its own version number. The number of the release is relatively
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote:
Jim Pazarena wrote:
having actual version/release numbers seems so much clearer.
And there does appear to BE release numbers. So why promote the
goofy naming system which throws the novice?
In my experience it is the
On 2010-12-21 2:16 PM, Mark Goldshtein wrote:
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Bob Proulxb...@proulx.com wrote:
Jim Pazarena wrote:
having actual version/release numbers seems so much clearer.
And there does appear to BE release numbers. So why promote the
goofy naming system which throws the
On Tuesday 21 December 2010 22:16:42 Mark Goldshtein wrote:
I am just curious, how novices 'get lost' with, for example, Debian
Stable 2011? Of course, after that, you may add 6.0 and Squeeze
and whatever the Team wants, for example, full GNU v3 license text.
a) Suppose that there are several
what possessed the debian people to tack names on to the OS?
having actual version/release numbers seems so much clearer.
And there does appear to BE release numbers. So why promote the
goofy naming system which throws the novice?
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Hi ,
On 21/12/10 10:18, Jim Pazarena wrote:
what possessed the debian people to tack names on to the OS?
having actual version/release numbers seems so much clearer.
And there does appear to BE release numbers. So why promote the
goofy naming system which throws the novice?
do you really
Jim Pazarena wrote:
what possessed the debian people to tack names on to the OS?
It isn't just Debian. Most of the software distributions use names
for their releases *in addition to* the version numbering just like
Debian does. Debian isn't unique here. Just like car companies name
their car
Jim Pazarena wrote:
what possessed the debian people to tack names on to the OS? having
actual version/release numbers seems so much clearer. And there does
appear to BE release numbers. So why promote the goofy naming system
which throws the novice?
This was all fought out on debian-devel
Jim Pazarena said:
what possessed the debian people to tack names on to the OS?
having actual version/release numbers seems so much clearer.
And there does appear to BE release numbers. So why promote the
goofy naming system which throws the novice?
-
Windows 98, 2000 Pro., ME, XP, Vista,
On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 18:18 -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote:
what possessed the debian people to tack names on to the OS?
having actual version/release numbers seems so much clearer.
And there does appear to BE release numbers. So why promote the
goofy naming system which throws the novice?
Don't
On 12/20/2010 20:45, Petrus Validus wrote:
On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 18:18 -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote:
what possessed the debian people to tack names on to the OS?
having actual version/release numbers seems so much clearer.
And there does appear to BE release numbers. So why promote the
goofy
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