[CentOS-devel] The CentOS Release Number Typography

Fri Jun 6 03:47:15 UTC 2014
Keith Keller <kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us>

On 2014-06-06, Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> I think of release names as similar to DNS. Not all of us can memorize
> IP addresses. A release name is friendlier to other humans. :)

The difficulty I have with release names is that, unlike IP addresses,
releases are ordered.  I know that CentOS 6 came after CentOS 5.  If
software says "requires CentOS Churro or higher", is CentOS Donut
sufficient? 

--keith

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