HDTV monitor

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 01:49:32PM -0700, Brandon Sandrowicz wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:24 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Those are not actual Ubuntu release numbers.  Ubuntu numbers are
> > dates: Y.MM.  Not decimal fractions; I assume that next year a leading
> > digit of 1 will be prepended.
> 
> This is the confusion. *No* version numbers are decimal fractions. The
> period/decimal is used as a separator between Major and Minor revision
> numbers (e.g. Major_Rev.Minor_Rev.BugFix_Rev). If they were decimal
> fractions, then 2.6.2 would be invalid, and 2.21 would come before
> 2.3. It could just as easily be 2$6$30 or 2/6/30 or 2,6,30 but the
> decimal looks cleaner, (and the comma would have the same confusion,
> just in Europe/Oceania instead of in North America).

I would be surprised if next year's ubuntu isn't 10.4 since that would
be year 10, month 4.  Seems reasonable.

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Len Sorensen
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