Thank you for proving my point

Posted Oct 7, 2008 14:05 UTC (Tue) by buchanmilne (guest, #42315)
In reply to: YOU KICKED LENNY YOU BASTARD ! by ballombe
Parent article: What you can do for "Lenny"

This post was sent to debian-devel-announce.

But, I originally said:

Sure, that's not the subject of the mail, but the mail was sent to a Debian-specific list (thus, nothing wrong with assuming familiarity). But, LWN isn't supposed to be a distro-specific site.

I'm fine with people referring to releases by codename on mailing lists dedicated to that software project. But, using it outside the project is meaningless IMHO. That being the whole point of a code name, by definition.

I understand Ubuntu release codename are annoying since they change so often, but Debian stable release codename, seriously ?

Well, I'm actually wondering if anyone recognized the distribution codenames I used at the end of my original post:

Sorry, but that just doesn't Tikanga the Traktopel with me.

The fact that no one has commmented on that seems to indicate that people *aren't* familiar with linux distribution releases by their code name, proving my point.