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Why not call it "Ubuntu 12.04"?

Posted Oct 7, 2011 20:53 UTC (Fri) by einstein (subscriber, #2052)
In reply to: Why not call it "Ubuntu 12.04"? by niner
Parent article: Shuttleworth: P is for

> As a non-Ubuntu user, these names don't speak to me. But the version numbers don't make much more sense either.

Huh? YY.MM makes perfect sense to me. What could possibly be any clearer?

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Posted Oct 9, 2011 11:16 UTC (Sun) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link]

Y2K and I18N. In France the normal order is dd/mm/yy, so when you see 11.04, at best you think 2004/11 instead of 2011/04, at worse you wonder why it moves from 10.10 to 11.04, so 2011.04 would be clearer.

Why not call it "Ubuntu 12.04"?

Posted Oct 9, 2011 11:21 UTC (Sun) by niner (subscriber, #26151) [Link]

Thanks for explaining before I could come up with a good answer :)

Of course, one even has to recognice two dual-digit-numbers separated by a period as something date related first.