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I absolutely agree with this article. I'm not trying to promote OpenBSD by saying this, but one important thing that drew me to OpenBSD was the simplicity and consistency of it's versioning. A new version comes out every 6 months consistenly. No more two year waits for me. The version number releases increment like so 1.1, 1.2,...1.8, 1.9, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, etc. consistently. None of this 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, then 2.0 crap. When I started out as a new user to Unix, this OpenBSD way was a no-brainer. I could stop using OpenBSD for 5 years and come back and just get it. With Linux, if I came back after five years, I'd have to remember, "was it the even numbers that are development releases or the odd ones? I better look it up. And what does 2.6.50-blah blah mean? Is that an alpha, beta, or rc or release? I better look it up."

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