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Originally Posted by crossi
Why bother with stupid names where you can't even tell by looking at them which ones are the newest release? Why not just call it Windows 8? The Android names are the stupidest. They aren't stocking a candy shop or something.
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Originally Posted by mikeayers
I like the way Ubuntu does it. Each release has a (silly) name, but also it as a number, the year/month of its release. The 12.04 release is called Precise Pangolin. You can easily tell how old a version is this way.... How old is my XP box anyways?
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Originally Posted by HarryT
The Android ones go up alphabetically, so it's actually trivially simple to tell if one version is later than another - if it starts with a later letter of the alphabet, it's a later release.
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Ubuntu and Android do almost exactly the same thing: an official number and also a silly code name in alphabetical order. Android uses treats, Ubuntu uses animals.
I didn't realize the year.month thing about Ubuntu though. Interesting I guess, but major and minor version numbers have some understood meanings in the dev world. It seems odd to tie those numbers to dates.
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