Re: The naming wars continue...

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Tonnerre wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 03:33:33PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
> > Yes - lets stick to fewer numbers.  They can count faster, instead
> > of having a long string of them.  I hope linux doesn't
> > end up like X. "X11R6.8.1" The "X" itself is a counter, although
> > it is understandable if it never increments to "Y".  But
> > that "11" doesn't change much, and then there are three more numbers. :-/
> 
> X11  is the  name of  the  protocol: the  X Protocol,  version 11,  as
> released by the MIT. There was an X10.
> 
> 6.8.1 is the current X.Org release  that we did because 6.8 turned out
> to have a nasty idiot bug.

What a coincidence: use s/X11R/2./ to convert from X11 to Linux :-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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