Re: [CentOS-devel] The CentOS Release Number Typography

On 06/06/2014 04:47 AM, Keith Keller wrote:

On 2014-06-06, Karsten Wade kwade@redhat.com wrote:

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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?

and unlike DNS, we dont have 4 Billion to consider ( and thats v4 ) and typicall shorter to type + machine processable.

- KB