Code name for 9.1.0

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Tue Jul 15 10:17:07 EDT 2008


Am 15.07.2008 um 07:10 schrieb Richard A. Smith:

> Morgan Collett wrote:
>
>>> Heh.  I never noticed.  Why do you think the alphabetical ordering  
>>> is so
>>> special?
>>
>> It's easy to know the upgrade path: dapper -> edgy -> feisty -> gutsy
>> -> hardy -> intrepid -> j____
>
> I thought thats what the release number was for?  The code name is  
> just
> that a code name so you don't have to say "eight dot one dot two" all
> the time.


Certainly, it does not have to. But it's nice if it does. People refer  
to release often by code name, and for the less involved (like me with  
Ubuntu) it is still easy to remember that Feisty came after Edgy.  
Whereas I have a hard time remembering if Woody or Sarge was first.

- Bert -





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