Comments on: How to name the distribution releases?

By: Drew

Drew — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:22:02 +0000

I like the version numbering the way it is. I hope we continue on with our “old school” release numbering for many, many years to come.

By: marvin

marvin — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:33:40 +0000

I know it’s a bit late, but I have another naming scheeme based on numbers (start counting at 13, 14, … and so on) and a name based on the 18 penguin species (in alphabetical order), e.g the next verison would be called

openSUSE 13 (Adeline)
openSUSE 14 (African)
…

By: Italia F.

Italia F. — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:52:41 +0000

I prefer the Ubuntu style, simple and very clear!

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:14:36 +0000

Old school served us well for over a very long time already, what is it 15 years or more!

By: Kalle Anka

Kalle Anka — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:58:06 +0000

So what if openSUSE goes the way of Debian and includes other kernels such as kFreeBSD and eventually the Hurd?

By: Federico Lucifredi

Federico Lucifredi — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:34:14 +0000

Old School, I like the way it is.

By: houghi

houghi — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:33:48 +0000

The current numbering is confusing as many people think that*.0 is beta where it is just linked around a new version of SUSE.

So what will be the impact on the SLE numbering? I would suggest that there still would be some linking between the two. Otherwise you will get something like “openSUSE 2018.04 is a bit the same as SLE 14″

So if SLE won’t follow, stay with old school, where I think *.0 used to be the version before SLE * and then the once after it where called *.1, *.2, *.3 and even *.4 with some versions.

My preference would be YYYY.MM so 2011.11

Or go geeky all the way and use ddate.
houghi@penne : ddate +”%Y %B” 17 11 2011
3177 The Aftermath

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:03:40 +0000

Old school, don’t change it.

By: Picajoso

Picajoso — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:39:50 +0000

That’s an interesting change. I’m the editor of MuyLinux, a Linux blog in spanish, and I’ve made a little poll there (one of the most important blogs about Linux in Spanish globally) and maybe this data could be useful for you. The post URL is:

http://www.muylinux.com/2011/03/15/%C2%BFcambio-de-numeracion-en-opensuse/

Good luck with the decision!

By: jik

jik — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:06:34 +0000

I think I would like to change the way my birthdays go…. next birthday I am 2011.46