On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 18:18 -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote:
> what possessed the debian people to tack names on to the OS?
> having actual version/release numbers seems so much clearer.
> And there does appear to BE release numbers. So why promote the
> goofy naming system which throws the novice?

Don't forget Apple's OS X:

Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, etc...
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