Slackware is finally glibc based and Slackware 7.0.0 beta has been
released. Time for me to throw all my other distros out of the
window ;) For those of you who have been following Slackware, you
must be wondering what happened to 5.0 and 6.0. Well, below you
will find what volkerding has to say about that.
Here's what Patrick Volkerding said about it in the
slackware.com forum:
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I've stayed out of this for now, but I do think I should lend a
little justification to the version number thing.
First off, I think I forgot to count some time ago. If I'd
started on 6.0 and made every release a major version (I think
that's how Linux releases are made these days, right? ;), we
would be on Slackware 47 by now. (it would actually be in the
20s somewhere if we'd gone 1, 2, 3...)
I think it's clear that some other distributions inflated their
version numbers for marketing purposes, and I've had to field
(way too many times) the question "why isn't yours 6.x" or
worse "when will you upgrade to Linux 6.0" which really drives
home the effectiveness of this simple trick. With the move to
glibc and nearly everyone else using 6.x now, it made sense to
go to at least 6.0, just to make it clear to people who don't
know anything about Linux that Slackware's libraries,
compilers, and other stuff are not 3 major versions behind. I
thought they'd all be using 7.0 by now, but no matter. We're at
least "one better", right? :)
Sorry if I haven't been enough of a purist about this. I
promise I won't inflate the version number again (unless
everyone else does again ;)
Pat
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