Distro version numbers - Was:; Re: [Gllug] RH 7.1 -> 7.2 upgrade problems

[Chris Ball]

On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 13:15, Colin Murphy wrote:
> Why do the version numbers seem to jump in this way?

"I'm using Linux 7.2[1]".
"Well, I'm using Linux 8[2].  You should upgrade."

Distribution vendors know that people will refer to their product as
"Linux".  So they jump each other's versioning scheme to look like
they're more modern, and to make sure someone doesn't skip their boxed
sets because they think they're out of date.

Hence at least four distributions being around version seven or eight.

[1]: Red Hat.
[2]: Mandrake.

 - ~C.
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