https://news.opensuse.org/2015/11/04/opensuse-leap-42-1-becomes-first-hybrid-distribution/
"The naming strategy is SLE 12 SP1 or 12.1 + 30 = openSUSE Leap 42.1. Many have asked why 42, but SUSE and openSUSE have a tradition of starting big ideas with a four and two, a reference to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy." Apologies for the top-posting. -- -David Fleck ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronald Bynoe" <[email protected]> To: "Portland Linux/Unix Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 1:34:50 PM Subject: Re: [PLUG] OpenSuse confusion Or rather, pay more attention to your typing Ronald, sed 's/peak/leap/' You can read more about it at https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Leap but no, I don't know why exactly they chose the numbers they did for the versioning! Pleasantly, Ronald Bynoe On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Ronald Bynoe <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, it's SuSE's new approach to developing their distribution. Peak is > to SuSE Linux Enterprise as CentOS is to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. And > Fedora is equivalent to OpenSuSE. > > So Peak and CentOS will be the more forward-looking versions of their > enterprise counterparts. Peak has a slight difference in that it will also > incorporate packages that are slated for future releases, kinda like a > hybrid between Fedora and RHEL. > > On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 11:27 AM, benjamin barber <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> seminds me of sunos / solaris, version numbers are are social constructs >> ;-) >> >> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 11:20 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > I am trying to figure out what is the latest release of OpenSuse. >> > Apparently there was a 13.2, and maybe a 13.3, but now suddenly there >> > is Leap, which is version 42.1. WTH? >> > _______________________________________________ >> > PLUG mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
