Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:11:12 +0200 (MEST) | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | | Subject | Re: The naming wars continue... |
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Tonnerre wrote: > 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. > > 6.8.1 is the current X.Org release that we did because 6.8 turned out > to have a nasty idiot bug.
What a coincidence: use s/X11R/2./ to convert from X11 to Linux :-)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert
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