Re: Open source versioning conventions
There are other versioning schemes that are confusing too, look at Ubuntu for example its a good version scheme but it can still confuse the new user.
OpenSuse has a confusing scheme too it seems.
Personally I think the best naming scheme goes to Ubuntu though, .06/04 and .10 often indicate the months they were made in.
04 for April and 10 for October.
Then there is the number in full, 8.04 indicates the year 2008 and the month it was released (April)*
For OpenSuse there is actually a more true version scheme, OpenSuse 11.1 is the 11th release series of Suse and .1 probably indicates revision number (makes sense)
But OpenSuse 11.1 is technically about version 20 or 30 something, numerically speaking never did the math though.
*Please note that there was Ubuntu 6.06, Ubuntu Dapper was released late on purpose to ring out bugs.
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