Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262232AbUJZLOJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 07:14:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262229AbUJZLNq (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 07:13:46 -0400 Received: from witte.sonytel.be ([80.88.33.193]:15566 "EHLO witte.sonytel.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262232AbUJZLLb (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 07:11:31 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:11:12 +0200 (MEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Tonnerre cc: Helge Hafting , Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: The naming wars continue... In-Reply-To: <20041025232654.GC30574@thundrix.ch> Message-ID: References: <20041022234631.GF28904@waste.org> <20041023011549.GK17038@holomorphy.com> <20041023030356.GA5005@animx.eu.org> <20041024133333.GA16901@hh.idb.hist.no> <20041025232654.GC30574@thundrix.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1279 Lines: 31 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 -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds - 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/