Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Oct 2004 01:26:54 +0200 | From | Tonnerre <> | Subject | Re: The naming wars continue... |
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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.
6.8.1 is the current X.Org release that we did because 6.8 turned out to have a nasty idiot bug.
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