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Anyone else tired of these inscrutable code names?

Anyone else tired of these inscrutable code names?

Posted Aug 19, 2005 19:10 UTC (Fri) by stevenj (subscriber, #421)
In reply to: Anyone else tired of these inscrutable code names? by rm6990
Parent article: Ubuntu Breezy Badger "Colony 3" now available

No, alpha version should be named 5.10 alpha 1, etcetera.

What happens instead is that people tend to refer to the releases by the code names (hmm, does Debian "sid" come after or before "woody"??).


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Anyone else tired of these inscrutable code names?

Posted Aug 25, 2005 6:52 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

If one don't even know that, maybe it's best to avoid the unstable version of the software for now. :)

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