Results of the voting for the Fedora 17 release name

Posted Oct 13, 2011 12:04 UTC (Thu) by valhalla (guest, #56634)
In reply to: Results of the voting for the Fedora 17 release name by mlinksva
Parent article: Results of the voting for the Fedora 17 release name

I don't agree on the harder to search part: if I search for debian 5.0 I can get any page where a 5.0 is mentioned, in any context; it is harder to find a page that mentions the strings "debian" and "squeeze" with the two not being related.

This probably works better for Debian, usually mentioned by release name, than it does for Fedora, which as far as I know is usually mentioned by release number. Ubuntu is something in between.

One thing that Ubuntu did right is choosing names that are in alphabetical order, so that it is easy to guess the age of a distro even if one does not remember the specific name.

release names

Posted Oct 13, 2011 19:09 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

It actually bugs me that when searching on a specific Ubuntu release I need to account for both number and name. It's definitely easier in Debian where it's all about the name; nobody ever seems to know or care about Debian release numbers. And I agree that the name is easier to search than the number is.