Anyone else tired of these inscrutable code names?

Posted Aug 19, 2005 12:53 UTC (Fri) by peace (guest, #10016)
In reply to: Anyone else tired of these inscrutable code names? by stevenj
Parent article: Ubuntu Breezy Badger "Colony 3" now available

Ubuntu's numbering system is based on the date of release. So Breezy should be out October 2005. I like their system as it is more informative to be awaiting the 5.10 Ubuntu release than the 10.1 SuSE, 5.0 Fedora or 3.2 Debian release.

Giving a distribution software version numbers does not make a ton of sense anyway. They package up other software that does have sensible versioning for the most part. I would rather be able to deduce the release date from the distribution version code so that I can get a sense for what software is likely to be in it. For example, tell me what the SuSE 5.3 release meant. I'm sure that Ubuntu's installer apps have sensible version numbers.

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