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

[Nathan Haines]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 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.
> 

I actually have a CD around here from November 1995 of "Debian 1.0" 
that's actually 0.97 or some such.  On slow days I try to get it 
installed in VMware (not happening yet).  I would *love* to read the 
story of Debian 1.0!  Is there a good write up of that anywhere?

At that time, I was on a dialup Linux shell, my ISP was probably using 
Slackware, and Linux was but a vague, exciting mystery compared to the 
now familiar Windows 3.11 and DOS 5.0....

Nathan