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Followup to: <20041025232654.GC30574@thundrix.ch> By author: Tonnerre <tonnerre@thundrix.ch> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Salut, > > 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. > There also were a W, and and X1, X2, ... X11. However, there is a tendency for numbers to get stuck (witness Linux 2.x). In particular, X11R6 got encoded in many places including pathnames for no good reason. Under the pre-R6 naming schemes we'd had R7 a long time ago. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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