On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 07:18:00PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 11:47:19AM -0500, Tomas wrote: > > what do the words potato and woody mean in terms of debian/linux > > These are 'codenames' of different versions of distributions. Just like > "Manhattan" in RedHat or "Air" in Mandrake. In Debian codenames come from > "Toy Story" movie - they are names of characters. See > http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-ftparchives.html#s-sourceforcodenames >
The current stable, called slink, is Debian v2.1. potato, when it is released (should be soon!) will be v2.2. woody is the next version after that, v2.3 I guess. Before slink, there was hamm, v2.0. I think bo was v1.3 or something. Drew
