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 BE release numbers. So why promote the >>> goofy naming system which throws the novice? >> >> Don't forget Apple's OS X: >> >> Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, etc... > >Or Microsoft with longhorn, blackcomb, mantis, and so on. > >Heck, for that matter, Linus named one of the kernel releases something along >the lines of 'rabid badger' (it was in the readme, wish I had kept it as I >can't find any reference to it now).
Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_kernel_names However, these names are negligible compared to Pan: http://pan.rebelbase.com/ How about Release 0.105: "When Churchill opened the door, it was a new car, a Chevrolet Nova."? -- Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. -- Publilius Syrus http://chubig.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ieq4h5$lm...@dough.gmane.org
