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Seconded. I know several people who use Fedora. They refer to it by number, not by name. I thing the only possible value of release names is to provide somethin
by jff 13y ago
Seconded. I know several people who use Fedora. They refer to it by number, not by name. I thing the only possible value of release names is to provide something for bikeshedders to fight over while other people work.
- vacri 13y agoubuntu codenames are helpful in looking for technical assistance online. '20' isn't a particularly unique term online.
- testrun 13y agoand if you search on 'ubuntu 20'?
- vacri 13y agoUbuntu has the benefit of peculiar version numbers. But Debian doesn't. I've often searched for "Debian 6 foo" and received results where '6' is a page number or part of a date or someone's handle.
- MarkTee 13y agoYou're actually including those quotation marks in your query, right? Because if you search for "Debian 6 foo", you should only be seeing results that contain that exact phrase (on Google, anyways).
- vacri 13y agoI google in a variety of manners. I find codenames return a cleaner set of results than version numbers. If I search by codename, I don't need to also add the distribution name. "wheezy" is shorter than "debian 7", and doesn't need quotes. This being said, I'm not using a distro that discards a version every 6 months, so I don't need to keep a 'continually scrolling' list of codewords in my head.
- btgeekboy 13y agoOn the contrary, I find it far simpler to say that I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed rather than... actually, I honestly don't know what that one's called. But whatever one comes next, I know it's called 13.04 and... some other arbitrary animal name.