release numbers (was: [wplug] CMU installfest this Friday 7th Feb)

[Steve Kudlak]

Are all x.0 releases buggy? Well no, the
question is whether they are frequently
buggy. For animation software it is often
true. I haven't used many Linux distros
so I don't know if it holds for them.

Have Fun,
Sends Steve

P.S. COREL stuff was never like that ...
Boy do I wish COREL were still on the
LINUX bandwagon...

Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:

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> On Tuesday 04 February 2003 10:43, Nick Iglehart wrote:
> > It has to be understood that any software's first release is going to
> > be buggy.  While Microsoft releases major versions and then slowly
> > updates them, Linux vendors tend to release major versions and then
> > release minor versions as updates.  Any .0 release is going to have
> > issues and that is why it is generally recommended to wait for .1's,
> > although I generally wait for .3's.
>
> I don't see how this relates to a distribution release number.
> Incrementing the major number is a pure marketing decision and (at
> least in this case, RH7.3 -> RH8.0) doesn't have anything *really* that
> new, compared to the previous version.
>
> There was a thread in the linux kernel mailing list a while ago, about
> whether the next major release of the kernel should be named 2.6 or 3.0
> - - it doesn't change the product, it only changes people's perceptions.
> In this case, interestingly enough, this perception has backfired on
> Red Hat (and any other distribution I guess), resulting in the urban
> legent that all .0 releases are buggy.
>
> When was gcc 2.96 included in the distribution as an official compiler?
> That must've been the most buggy one :-)
>
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