[Gllug] iproute 2 and sarge

[John G Walker]

On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:23:45 +0000 John Winters <john at sinodun.org.uk>
wrote:

> There's not really a lot to understand.  Each new major release of
> Debian gets a new name.  In (recent) order they have been:
> 
> Sarge	- previous release
> Etch	- current release
> Lenny	- next release (getting real soon now)
> 
> The full list of releases in historical order is:
> 
> Hamm, Slink, Potato, Woody, Sarge, Etch, Lenny

My question is: why these names? How would you work out the order if
you weren't told? It all seems rather stupid - but maybe it isn't. I
remain to be convinced,

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 All the best,
 John
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