Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 67.150.125.226]
on June 07, 2008 08:36 PM
The real versioning problem is with distros that have decided to use meaningless designations such as Ubuntu's brain-dead month-year labeling. How am I to know how technically mature the distribution is if the last release is labeled April 2008 in numbers? Or, if you don't like that example, why did PCLinuxOS change from using a version number to using a year?
What I wonder is, what are these distributions trying to hide? Is it that they are actually technically immature, but they are merely interested in collecting users; so they provide a false sense of security through vague version labels?
That may be cynical, but I seriously wonder why some distributions have stopped using actual version numbers.
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Version labeling is out of control
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 67.150.125.226] on June 07, 2008 08:36 PMWhat I wonder is, what are these distributions trying to hide? Is it that they are actually technically immature, but they are merely interested in collecting users; so they provide a false sense of security through vague version labels?
That may be cynical, but I seriously wonder why some distributions have stopped using actual version numbers.
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