On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote: > > Note: this is *very* different from how Ubuntu (for example) is > numbered. Base Ubuntu 'version' numbers are just the year.month of the > release: Ubuntu 10.4 is just the base release of April of 2010, it is > NOT the 4th point release of the 10th major incarnation of Ubuntu. > Don't confuse this 'version numbering' with how CentOS's versions are > numbered. Correction: Ubuntu LTS versions do have point releases, probably swiped from RHEL/CentoOS. 8.04 was published at the end of April 2008 and has been updated to 8.04.1, 8.04.2, 8.04.3, 8.04.4 every subsequent July and January.