On Sat, 2012-04-21 at 00:33 +0200, Matej Cepl wrote: > On 20.4.2012 18:09, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >>> Never. Nobody uses the code names. It's a waste of time and choosing > >>> names like "Beefy Miracle" is a good way of making the distro look a > >>> whole lot less professional. > > > > Well, as far as I can tell, many Ubuntu and Debian users prefer to call > > their release "by name". > > Yes, and I wonder why Fedora users just don't it. Nobody knows why, I thought Przemek's explanation (upthread a couple of posts) was precisely correct, in fact. Android and Ubuntu names are alphabetized. There have been so few Debian releases that it's easy to keep the names straight (plus their naming scheme includes their development releases; our development release names, Rawhide and Branched, *are* commonly used, but are not tied in any way at all to the stable release naming system). Fedora has tons of releases - so many you would need some kind of aide-memoire in the system to keep them straight - but there is none (unless you can somehow remember, or reconstruct, all the 'X is also a Y' associations in the right order). Also, Fedora uses a simple, clear and consistent numbering scheme. Ubuntu's is clear and rules-based, but a bit tricky to remember, because they don't always hit the six month cycle exactly, so the 'month' portion of the release number changes from release to release. With Fedora it's just an incremented integer every time, and we've never done any crazy scheme changes or big bumps or 'reset to V1's like some distros have. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
