Correction 8.x should be 7.x (kernel 2.4) 8.0 was because of kde 3.0
Regards, Joop. On Sun, April 16, 2006 4:46 pm, Joop Boonen wrote: > I think it's the numbering is very logical. Only for 10.x it was a bit out > of tune. > > X.0 is the pre new kernel version. > 8.0 was pre 2.4 kernel (2.4 was test kernel) 8.1 was 2.4 kernel > 9.0 was pre 2.6 kernel (2.6 was test kernel) 9.1 was 2.6 kernel > > My opion 10.0 was pre red carpet and other novell tools 10.1 has al this > inside. An ofcourse the market made them move to 10. Solaris 10, Mandriva > 10, Redhat 10 etc. > > I personally prefer numbers as the dat or some wierd name doesn't mean > anything to me. x.1 id newer than x.0. That is very clear. Look the latest > version up on the internet. > > I hope SuSE will never move to NT, 2000, XP, Vista etc. Instead of 4.0, > 4.1, 5 and 5.1? > > (May be an option might be an odd and even sceam like with the kernel, odd > is test/unstable even is stable?) > > Regards, > > Joop. > > > > On Sun, April 16, 2006 1:00 pm, houghi wrote: >> I am curious how SUSE decides when a version goes from X.0 to Y.0. >> e.g. SUSE 9.0 was more, I think a buniness decision. SUSE 10.0 was due >> to >> the step to openSUSE. >> >> I can see no real technical reasons (anymore) to keep this up. I also >> believe that it might confuse people. Some people say that they stay >> with >> 9.3, till 10.1 comes out, because they do not trust .0 releases. >> >> I think that 10.0 is closer to 9.3 then 10.1 is to 10.0 and that 10.1 is >> more of a new line then 10.0 was. >> >> So will SUSE keep these version numbers and if so what are the decisions >> to go to 11 (It goes to eleven :-) >> >> I personally would drop the numbers and go with dates. e.g. `SUSE 2005 >> Spring` instead of SUSE 10.1. >> >> houghi >> -- >> Nutze die Zeit. Sie ist das Kostbarste, was wir haben, denn es >> ist unwiederbringliche Lebenszeit. Leben ist aber mehr als Werk >> und Arbeit, und das Sein wichtiger als das Tun >> - Johannes Müller-Elmau >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
