Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1256 mails)

[Markus Slopianka <markus.s@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Samstag 03 September 2011 14:40:11 Kim Leyendecker wrote:

> What´s with Firefox 4.0? What´s with Thunderbird 5.0?

Mozilla has adopted a completely different versioning scheme for their products.
Mozilla no longer releases minor versions.

> And Linux 3.0 was also a dot-0 release

No, it was not. It was a rebranded 2.6.x release for the simple reason Linus 
Torvalds 
liked that number better.
It had none of the characteristics of a traditional major software release: It 
didn't 
break compatibility, it didn't feature a major rewrite of core parts, etc.

> and *was* for end users.
The Linux community (just like most other FOSS communities) does no releases 
targeted at 
end users. Distributors do that.

> Stop such _moronic_ arguments.

You are citing exceptions as the norm.
From Apache httpd 2.0.0, to GNOME 2.0, to Linux 2.6.0, to Mac OS X 10.0.0, to 
Windows 6.0 
(Vista) the IT world is filled with not fully matured software releases as x.0. 
In the 
latter two examples those were even sold to customers.

(BTW: People who cant even use the "Repy to list" feature, should not call 
other people's 
arguments as moronic.)

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