On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:32:11PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, victor wrote: > >> Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:18:47 +0100 >> From: victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: devel@lists.laptop.org >> Subject: OS versioning >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> I was trying to find the correct info on OS versioning in the wiki, but >> could not. So perhaps you can enlighten me? >> >> 1.Why version 8.* ? > > 2008
right. > >> 2.Last release was 8.1, we are going towards 8.2, I see that, but >> was 8.1 FC7-based or FC8? Is 8.2 FC9-based? > > I think 8.1 was FC7 based and 8.2 will be FC9 > This is correct but the real reason is that these are the first (8.1) and second (8.2) releases of the year. I do not believe there are plans to make an 8.3. This corresponds roughly with a six-month realease cycle. >> 3. How are olpc-2 and olpc-3 (the names of distros in >> Koji) related to OS versions? > > don't know this one > >> 4. How do build numbers, stable/joyride, relate to OS versions? > > they don't directly. > In all kinds of ways. 8.1 -> 703 -> ECO 4 8.1.1 -> 708 -> ECO 5 8.1.2 -> 711 -> ECO 6 Best, Erik _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel