On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 13:57, Gordon Keehn wrote: > Once upon a time, a new version (dot-zero) signaled a major change > of some sort, new kernel, or whatever. Dot-one through whatever could > be considered revisions (and hopefully, but not always, improvements) on > the original theme. RedHat broke that model with RH9, and Fedora has > continued the downward trend. Hey, wait a sec.... Let's be careful about where the blame for this one goes. I don't think we can blame Red Hat for the death of traditional version numbering in products!! Personally I think it all began when Microsoft made Word jump from 2.0 to 6 (in an effort to leap frog WordPerfect), not to mention the whole year oriented thingy over there. And lots not forget the change from SunOS to Solaris and that whole numbering thing.... > I'm just nostalgic for the good old days > when version numbers meant something. You see it's a conspiracy of those MBA's in marketing that believe the average consumer is impressed with bigger numbers that has taken us down this road.... (Methinks that may be how we got RHL 9 instead of 8.1 - it was the boys and girls in marketing that wanted a number bigger than Suse.... of course, that's just my conspiracy theories talking.... wait, the cameras are watching me....) Though I must admit, I too found the old ways simpler.... But perhaps that's just my age talking..... --Rob
