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why is it like this? (lemmy.world)
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[-] Walop@sopuli.xyz 69 points 1 year ago

[-] gon@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

ill be downloading this image thank you very much

[-] CarnivorousCouch@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

You wouldn't download an image

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[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 61 points 1 year ago

Mac OS: Cat, Dog, Cow, Panther, Some California park, your uncles house

[-] ebits21@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Everything should be date-based name releases.

If it’s released April, 2023 it should be 23.04 or similar.

Other schemes are arbitrary.

Change my mind.

[-] FaeDrifter@midwest.social 33 points 1 year ago

How would you differentiate between versions with major api breaks?

[-] bjornsno@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago

Shhh, they don't know what that means, let them live in bliss

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[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 20 points 1 year ago

Semantic versioning. If I have 1.0.0 and you release 1.1.0 I can be pretty confident it's safe to update. If you release 2.0.0 I need to read the release notes and see what broke.

If I have version July2023 and you release August2023 I have no information about if it's safe to update. That's terrible. That's really bad.

This is for dependency management and maybe apis more than OSs, but in general semantic versioning is a very good system. It should be used often.

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[-] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 year ago

They both serve different purposes

KDE Plasma does its versioning to follow QT versioning, which does its versioning in that way to signify API breaks.

But for something else like, say, the Linux kernel, which does not break compatibility in that manner, date-based would make more sense.

[-] Araozu@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Marketing version (23.04 or just 23) and semver (3.11.3)

Change my mind

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[-] lontong@kbin.social 44 points 1 year ago

Even the old dog did it:

In 1999, Slackware saw its version jump from 4 to 7. Slackware version numbers were lagging behind other distributions, and this led many users to believe it was out of date even though the bundled software versions were similar. Volkerding made the decision to bump the version as a marketing effort to show that Slackware was as up-to-date as other Linux distributions, many of which had release numbers of 6 at the time. He chose 7, estimating that most other distributions would soon be at this release number.

[-] d_k_bo@feddit.de 34 points 1 year ago

I'll likely call it 6.0 since I'm starting to worry about getting confused by big numbers again.

~ Linus Torvalds

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[-] Dnn@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

Poor Windows NT.

[-] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

NT was a parallel line of "professional" windows. It had a different kernel or something. There were equivalent versions to most of the home releases.

The first release was NT 3.1, to match version numbers with the home OS.

NT 4 was the professional version of win 95/98.

In the year 2000 Microsoft released both Windows ME, and Windows 2000. ME for the home, 2000 was the NT release for the workplace.

The products were merged with windows XP, now all windows is windows NT.

The version numbering makes sense if you count by the NT version numbers. 2000/ME is version 5, therefore XP is 6, and if you pretend Vista never existed (as you should for your own sanity) you get to windows 7 and it all starts to make sense.

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[-] LaggyKar@programming.dev 27 points 1 year ago

And there is OpenSUSE: 10 11 12 13 42 15

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[-] ice2194@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago

Because in the end a "version number" is just part of the name. You can call it anything you want.

[-] joyjoy@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Minecraft 1.7.🍌

[-] ice2194@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Minebanan: now with more banan

[-] voidMainVoid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

That still doesn't explain why you would choose the other two instead of just counting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 like a sane person.

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[-] const_void@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

Juking the version number was trendy there for a while. It happened to browser versions to. Firefox and Chrome went from like version 10 to 100.

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

By 2024 firefox will be on version 1043^624^x*12^69 where x is the latest version of chrome.

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[-] FluffyPotato@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Even stranger is the windows 8 and 8.1 part since this is the one and only time a service pack changed the name of the OS.

[-] mindbleach@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

See also the Doom numbering system: Ultimate, 2, 64, Final, 3, (2016), Eternal.

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[-] amycatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago

Gnome 40/41/etc is still 3.40/3.41/etc if I remember correctly

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[-] w2tpmf@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Windows 95, 98, me were kernel version 4.0+

Windows 2000 was kernel 5.0

XP and Vista were 6.0 and 6.1

Windows 10 had to be called that because the naming convention used on Windows 95/98 caused someware to see the OS as version 9.x

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[-] tram1@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

41>10>5

GNOME is clearly the best

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[-] eleefece@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Also Firefox, please stop

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