numbers names education or how I learned to say six dot zero six instead of dapper drake

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 09:13:48AM +0100, Paul O'Malley wrote:
> Perhaps it would be worth while if rather than making a big deal about 
> the name we actually referred to it as,
> ... the development branch of the 6.10 release edgy eft ... or words to 
> that effect.

The reason why we primarily use the code name during development is to avoid
confusion about the pre-release nature of the system.  Because Ubuntu is
available all the time, whether it's completely broken or officially
blessed, we need to be careful in communicating its current status.

For an example of what can go wrong, read the story of Debian 1.0.

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 - mdz