Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261910AbUJZBZm (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 21:25:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261893AbUJZBWU (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 21:22:20 -0400 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([204.152.189.113]:4051 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261915AbUJZBSy (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 21:18:54 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 01:26:54 +0200 From: Tonnerre To: Helge Hafting Cc: Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: The naming wars continue... Message-ID: <20041025232654.GC30574@thundrix.ch> References: <20041022234631.GF28904@waste.org> <20041023011549.GK17038@holomorphy.com> <20041023030356.GA5005@animx.eu.org> <20041024133333.GA16901@hh.idb.hist.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="NU0Ex4SbNnrxsi6C" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041024133333.GA16901@hh.idb.hist.no> X-GPG-KeyID: 0x8BE1C38D X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1AB0 9AD6 D0C8 B9D5 C5C9 9C2A FF86 CBEE 8BE1 C38D X-GPG-KeyURL: http://users.thundrix.ch/~tonnerre/tonnerre.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040803i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1323 Lines: 41 --NU0Ex4SbNnrxsi6C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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. Tonnerre --NU0Ex4SbNnrxsi6C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.9.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBfYu9/4bL7ovhw40RAt8bAJ0WmsWaQGJNHZv/jtHJKbVRrvIkrACggqVP l21tP/OO89p5559lnpPux7U= =2yle -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NU0Ex4SbNnrxsi6C-- - 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/