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    [–] Walop@sopuli.xyz 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    [–] gon@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    ill be downloading this image thank you very much

    [–] CarnivorousCouch@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

    You wouldn't download an image

    [–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 58 points 1 year ago

    Mac OS: Cat, Dog, Cow, Panther, Some California park, your uncles house

    [–] ebits21@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

    Everything should be date-based name releases.

    If it’s released April, 2023 it should be 23.04 or similar.

    Other schemes are arbitrary.

    Change my mind.

    [–] FaeDrifter@midwest.social 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    How would you differentiate between versions with major api breaks?

    [–] bjornsno@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Shhh, they don't know what that means, let them live in bliss

    [–] ebits21@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Lol. Developers just need to know what date the api changed. Viola.

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    [–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Semantic versioning. If I have 1.0.0 and you release 1.1.0 I can be pretty confident it's safe to update. If you release 2.0.0 I need to read the release notes and see what broke.

    If I have version July2023 and you release August2023 I have no information about if it's safe to update. That's terrible. That's really bad.

    This is for dependency management and maybe apis more than OSs, but in general semantic versioning is a very good system. It should be used often.

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    [–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 year ago

    They both serve different purposes

    KDE Plasma does its versioning to follow QT versioning, which does its versioning in that way to signify API breaks.

    But for something else like, say, the Linux kernel, which does not break compatibility in that manner, date-based would make more sense.

    [–] Araozu@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Marketing version (23.04 or just 23) and semver (3.11.3)

    Change my mind

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    [–] lontong@kbin.social 43 points 1 year ago

    Even the old dog did it:

    In 1999, Slackware saw its version jump from 4 to 7. Slackware version numbers were lagging behind other distributions, and this led many users to believe it was out of date even though the bundled software versions were similar. Volkerding made the decision to bump the version as a marketing effort to show that Slackware was as up-to-date as other Linux distributions, many of which had release numbers of 6 at the time. He chose 7, estimating that most other distributions would soon be at this release number.

    [–] d_k_bo@feddit.de 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I'll likely call it 6.0 since I'm starting to worry about getting confused by big numbers again.

    ~ Linus Torvalds

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    [–] Dnn@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Poor Windows NT.

    [–] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

    NT was a parallel line of "professional" windows. It had a different kernel or something. There were equivalent versions to most of the home releases.

    The first release was NT 3.1, to match version numbers with the home OS.

    NT 4 was the professional version of win 95/98.

    In the year 2000 Microsoft released both Windows ME, and Windows 2000. ME for the home, 2000 was the NT release for the workplace.

    The products were merged with windows XP, now all windows is windows NT.

    The version numbering makes sense if you count by the NT version numbers. 2000/ME is version 5, therefore XP is 6, and if you pretend Vista never existed (as you should for your own sanity) you get to windows 7 and it all starts to make sense.

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    [–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 24 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    And there is OpenSUSE: 10 11 12 13 42 15

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    [–] ice2194@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Because in the end a "version number" is just part of the name. You can call it anything you want.

    [–] joyjoy@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Minecraft 1.7.🍌

    [–] ice2194@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

    Minebanan: now with more banan

    [–] voidMainVoid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    That still doesn't explain why you would choose the other two instead of just counting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 like a sane person.

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    [–] const_void@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Juking the version number was trendy there for a while. It happened to browser versions to. Firefox and Chrome went from like version 10 to 100.

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    [–] FluffyPotato@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

    Even stranger is the windows 8 and 8.1 part since this is the one and only time a service pack changed the name of the OS.

    [–] amycatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Gnome 40/41/etc is still 3.40/3.41/etc if I remember correctly

    [–] sohrabbehdani@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

    no they just decided to make 4.0 into 40

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    [–] mindbleach@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    See also the Doom numbering system: Ultimate, 2, 64, Final, 3, (2016), Eternal.

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    [–] tram1@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    41>10>5

    GNOME is clearly the best

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    [–] w2tpmf@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Windows 95, 98, me were kernel version 4.0+

    Windows 2000 was kernel 5.0

    XP and Vista were 6.0 and 6.1

    Windows 10 had to be called that because the naming convention used on Windows 95/98 caused someware to see the OS as version 9.x

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    [–] eleefece@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

    Also Firefox, please stop

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