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Fedora 18 Release name voting and pollFedora 18 Release name voting and pollPosted Apr 21, 2012 23:16 UTC (Sat) by mikov (subscriber, #33179)In reply to: Fedora 18 Release name voting and poll by scientes Parent article: Fedora 18 Release name voting and poll
Your assertion seems to be that release names and versions numbers are equally useless, so we might as well use something silly and fun.
I have to disagree on two counts however:
- Ubuntu version numbers, being a year and month, are very informative and useful. They are brilliant, actually.
- Release names, on the other hand, are very hard to remember, especially for non native English speakers. I can easily remember 11.10 but "Oneiric Ocelot" might as well be "Blebliah Blobleliebhu"; both sound like gibberish to me the first time I hear them. They are non-translatable and un-pronounceable in other languages.
Internal code names are good, but release names should be publicly visible only if they are associated with a real marketing campaign and are not more frequent than once every couple of years.
This is simply common sense, and frankly I am shocked at the opposition.
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Fedora 18 Release name voting and poll Posted Apr 23, 2012 13:53 UTC (Mon) by AAP (guest, #721) [Link]
In fact, I have a mental block on the name of the current Ubuntu release. My mind keeps thinking "Ornery Onslot", even though I know that's not right. And I keep thinking the next one should be some sort of Penguin. :p
Fedora 18 Release name voting and poll Posted Apr 23, 2012 19:40 UTC (Mon) by xtifr (subscriber, #143) [Link]
You say the version numbers are useful, and to support this theory, you...say they're useful. Looks a bit like circular reasoning to me. Can you provide some realistic examples of their utility? (And just so you know, I think that versioned dependencies should be on tools, not distros, and preventing people from declaring versioned dependencies on entire distros is actually a Good Thing(tm).)
Fedora 18 Release name voting and poll Posted Apr 23, 2012 20:06 UTC (Mon) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
when talking to someone, it's a lot easier to say "I'm using Ubuntu 12.04" than to say I'm using a distro with these library versions:
linux-vdso.so.1
and have to give different sets of libraries for each program you are using.
applications should not depend on specific distro versions, but for users and support people the one version number encapsulates a very large number of specific versions
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