[Gllug] Ubuntu and me - suggestions requested (polite ones please)

[Hari Sekhon]

Hari Sekhon wrote:
> Ryan Cartwright wrote:
>> 2008/11/13 - Tethys <tethys at gmail.com>:
>>  
>>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Peter Corlett <abuse at cabal.org.uk> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    
>>>>> Everyone uses the codename.
>>>>>         
>>>> [citation required]
>>>>       
>>> Errr.... no. This is the GLLUG mailing list, not Wikipedia. Personal
>>> observation is more than sufficient, and my personal observation says
>>> that everyone (both those I've encountered in person, and those I've
>>> come across online) uses the codename.
>>>     
>>
>> I'm a Debian user of some years and been around various lists and
>> groups of Debian users. I have to agree with Tet on this one - sort
>> of. The pedant in me says that it's not going to be "everyone" but
>> certainly _most_ people I've encountered refer to sid, lenny, sarge
>> etc. At worst I've heard them refer to stable, testing or unstable but
>> rarely if ever 3 or 4 etc.
>>   
> I've also been a debian user of some years and have to say that I knew 
> what the code version mappings were, but really who cares?
>
> If you want a stable distro, use the stable branch, that name never 
> changes. If you want a newer, use Testing branch and if you want 
> Bleeding Edge but may break use Unstable.
>
> I'm not sure that the numbers and codenames are all that important.
This reminded me of something:

Q. What is the definition of a Nerd?
A. A person who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones

I think we should extend this to include email and version number -> 
name mappings. :-)

-h

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