silly overview in 23.10

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2023 at 16:17, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
ession (3.38.0+14+g87d92fec-1 -> 40beta+4+gd44888fb-1)
>
> Either they release 37 major versions within 4 month and I missed all of
> them or else they made the minor version the major version.

Yes they did. My sort of predecessor at the Reg write about that:

https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/18/ubuntu_2110_review/

In essence they wanted to call GNOME 3.40 "GNOME 4" but they decided
that would scare everyone too much so they just dropped the major
version number.

This is what Solaris did:

SunOS 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, 4.x
Switch to SysV: SunOS 5 = Solaris 2
Solaris 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
Solaris 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

Java too:

Java 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
Java 5, 6, 7, 8 LTS, 9, 10, 11 LTS, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 LTS, 18,
19, 20, 21 LTS, 22

Enlightenment went 0.13 to 0.16, which was also called 1.x.

Then it started calling releases "DR 17"... "DR 25" instead of 0.17,
0.18, 0.19 etc.

It is a thing. It's a bad thing I do not like but it's not unique.

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