Seriously? Fedora has 1487 release names? I'm up to Fedora 14 and only
remember 15 (one was an alternative spin). Ubuntu over 2000?
I'm missing something somewhere.
Jim G
On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 15:57 -0800, Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
> On Monday 02 May 2011, Bruce Hill elucidated thus:
> > Seriously, it's pretty arrogant when someone refers to their distro's
> > release name and expect you to know what they're talking about. And
> > how many Linux distros are there now? And how many different release
> > names would that make?
>
> Possibly, but according to Distro Watch:
>
> 1 Ubuntu 2229
> 2 Mint 1966
> 3 Fedora 1487
> 4 Debian 1414
> 5 openSUSE 1294
> 6 Arch 916
> 7 Sabayon 843
> 8 PCLinuxOS 839
> 9 Puppy 804
> 10 CentOS 748
> 11 Mandriva 710
> 12 Slackware 665
> 13 Ultimate 579
> 14 Chakra 569
> 15 FreeBSD 514
>
> I could probably know what someone was talking about *most* of the time
> if someone mentioned a release name from that list. I work daily in
> Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, and RHEL, so that may contribute to it. But if
> you've been in the Linux world for 10+ years (and most people here have
> way more than that), you probably keep up with names and releases, even
> if you don't use them (e.g. I don't have any Fedora boxes).
>
> > Anyway, perhaps someone will fix borken Ubuntu ... and when he fixes
> > his problem or updates a package Ubuntu will do like Windoze ...
> > REBOOT!
>
> Only time Ubuntu's updater asks for a reboot is when a kernel gets
> swapped out. Maybe when you upgrade libc...don't remember on that.
> Don't remember the message when you upgrade X.
>
> j
>
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