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Seriously?

Seriously?

Posted Sep 2, 2008 10:52 UTC (Tue) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)
In reply to: Seriously? by jhoger
Parent article: Debian successor to Lenny has been named

The part that non-Debianistas find hard is knowing how the various codenames are sequenced - is Etch before or after Lenny, for example? This is important if you stumble on a forum posting for Debian when trying to configure another distro, and would like to know if the information within is of a similar vintage to your version.

Ubuntu uses codenames that are alphabetically sequenced, so as long as you know the latest release it's easy to tell the Breezy is a very old version. (I know Warty Warthog was older but that's before they got onto the alphabetical sequence I think).


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