Do you like Ubuntu's "versioning way"?

[Eisenwinter]

Do you like it that Ubuntu is versioned according to the month and the year of the release? such as 8.04 representing April 2008, and 8.10 representing October 2008?

I personally dislike it, because I don't like to see "big" version numbers, I prefer version numbers such as "2.0.1", "3.5.4", and so on.

[tuxxy]

I like it :)

[SuperSonic4]

I think .04 and .10 are ok altohugh I like Mandriva's which is the year and .0 or .1

[Northsider]

I dont really care...it's fine.

[jimi_hendrix]

i just call it by the adj. of the animal...like hardy or intrepid

[Vitamin-Carrot]

I love it...

Nuff said

[nick09]

I like it as we would know when it was released with the way the version is made.

[Saint Angeles]

its better than any other version number ive ever seen.

windows doesnt make any sense (2000, XP, vista?)... OS X is just sequential with no information about the release date (10.3, 10.4...)

but ubuntu makes perfect sense. 8.04 (2008, 4th month...)

[NewJack]

I like it as we would know when it was released with the way the version is made.


Agreed

[Phreaker]

It's easy to remember.I like it

[smartboyathome]

I honestly don't care. As long as it works, its fine. I wish they would bring back the old development versioning scheme (like tribe 1 for Gutsy).

[mfarquhar]

I don't really care one way or the other as far as Date vs. Standard version numbers.

that is as long as it's just between those two, looking at the windows side of the versioning, it was ok early on (tried both version and date numbering ie. Windows 3.1, and then Windows 95-98 ), but then it just got ridiculous...

Perhaps someone who knows what the big changes are in each version relative to the other versions could come out with unofficial standard version numbers for Ubuntu

[lisati]

I've even seen a couple of threads in the last few days relating to version 8.1 - and I didn't even know there was a version released in January!

[MickS]

I like it although I generally use the animal names 'cos I like them more.


Mick

[handy]

I don't care; it is the contents that matter.

Though when you think about it, the versioning of Ubuntu is quite clever, & makes it very easy to know when it was released.