version #s: .04 beta while .10 is stable?

[Torsten Spindler]

On Tue, 2007-15-05 at 19:21 -0700, ubunt2 at gmail.com wrote:
> This is the first time I heard that .04 versions of Ubuntu is beta
> while .10 versions are stable.

You're right, it is not about stable and beta. Take a look at
http://www.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntustory :

"The first official release of Ubuntu was made in October 2004 and was
duly named Version 4.10, thus introducing the Y.MM numbering system."

Regards,
Torsten


> 
> 
> On 5/15/07, Alfred <alfred.s at nexicom.net> wrote:
> > I'm not a real Expert in 7.04. I have an Athalon-XP, and an Nvidia Card.
> > In Linux you got these Numbers of Versions. .0X means it is still a
> > Beta. So 6.04 was a Beta, while .10 means it has been so fixed up, it is
> > Stable. So 6.10 is Stable, while 7.04 is still Questionable. There may
> > still be things going to the bug list, for 7.04. Now some people like to
> > play with Beta Versions so they can find the Glitches and Bugs in that.
> > In 7.04 there was a bug with SATA Drives. Buy a new Drive these days and
> > it might not be an IDE DRive. While 6.10 did not have this Bug.
> >
> > Ask yourself, do you want to play detective, or have something that
> > works well?
> >
> > Works well - Put on 6.10. Detective, put on 7.04.
> >
> > There are even some already playing with Ubuntu 8.?? That would be an
> > Alpha Version.
>