Ubuntu release names/version numbers

[Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)]

Hello.

Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski:

> Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) wrote:
> 
> >>what is Panther (10.3), Tiger (10.4), and Jaguar (10.2).
> >Looks like they're sorted alphabetically. :o)
> 
>  MacOS X 10.6 'Zebra'? ;-))

In all fairness, it was a wild guess. I just checked that 10.0 was
codenamed Cheetah, but 10.1 was Puma, so the theory doesn't hold
water, unfortunately. :o)

// You're not really suggesting that zebras are undercover
// felines, are you? That would explain a lot, though...

> >of version numbers (hello, Slackware)
> 
> It was a PR move.

I know, that's why I wrote about "artificially bloated".

> Who wants to run lame Slackware 3.5 when you have Red Hat 7? ;-)

Who wouldn't want to? :o)

Cheers,
-- Shot
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