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why is it like this?
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I'll likely call it 6.0 since I'm starting to worry about getting confused by big numbers again.
I was looking a Linus/Linux comment, I was trying to remember at what point Linus said "I'm incrementing the major version because these numbers are getting too big, there is no major advancement".
ill be downloading this image thank you very much
Even stranger is the windows 8 and 8.1 part since this is the one and only time a service pack changed the name of the OS.
41>10>5
GNOME is clearly the best
"It's 34 versions ahead of cinnamon" -GNOME devs probably
And there is OpenSUSE: 10 11 12 13 42 15
If 42 is a true to Sir Terry Pratchett, then I see anothing wrong with this.
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Fuck. I know. I just woke up and haven't had any coffee yet.
The system for tumbleweed is nice. There's only one version : tumbleweed.
From another perspective, you have a new version every few days, with the date as the version
Juking the version number was trendy there for a while. It happened to browser versions to. Firefox and Chrome went from like version 10 to 100.
By 2024 firefox will be on version 1043^624^x*12^69 where x is the latest version of chrome.
Latex:
Because KDE is boring. /s
See also the Doom numbering system: Ultimate, 2, 64, Final, 3, (2016), Eternal.
64 came after final, at least according to wikipedia
Poor Windows NT.
NT was a parallel line of "professional" windows. It had a different kernel or something. There were equivalent versions to most of the home releases.
The first release was NT 3.1, to match version numbers with the home OS.
NT 4 was the professional version of win 95/98.
In the year 2000 Microsoft released both Windows ME, and Windows 2000. ME for the home, 2000 was the NT release for the workplace.
The products were merged with windows XP, now all windows is windows NT.
The version numbering makes sense if you count by the NT version numbers. 2000/ME is version 5, therefore XP is 6, and if you pretend Vista never existed (as you should for your own sanity) you get to windows 7 and it all starts to make sense.
Because in the end a "version number" is just part of the name. You can call it anything you want.
That still doesn't explain why you would choose the other two instead of just counting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 like a sane person.
Two words: Steve Ballmer
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
Gnome 40/41/etc is still 3.40/3.41/etc if I remember correctly
no they just decided to make 4.0 into 40
Everything should be date-based name releases.
If it’s released April, 2023 it should be 23.04 or similar.
Other schemes are arbitrary.
Change my mind.
How would you differentiate between versions with major api breaks?
Shhh, they don't know what that means, let them live in bliss
Lol. Developers just need to know what date the api changed. Viola.
Gotta know, are you serious or joking here? Follow up question: are you a developer and have you ever worked on a medium+ sized project? The amount of dependencies you end up with is astounding, you can't just "know" when all those APIs changed, that would be a full time job just to stay on top of. And that's not even taking into consideration transitive dependencies. If a library doesn't use semantic versioning, 99% of the time it's correct to avoid it just to save yourself the headache.
Semantic versioning. If I have 1.0.0 and you release 1.1.0 I can be pretty confident it's safe to update. If you release 2.0.0 I need to read the release notes and see what broke.
If I have version July2023 and you release August2023 I have no information about if it's safe to update. That's terrible. That's really bad.
This is for dependency management and maybe apis more than OSs, but in general semantic versioning is a very good system. It should be used often.
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2023
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