Re: [twuug] [Fwd: [Security Announce] ANNOUNCEMENT: End of lifeproduct policy]

["Ethan O'Toole" <ethan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> As for MS not releasing anywhere near as often... Thank God too... can you
> imagine the naming?  "Windows 95 and two thirds"  "Windows 96 and one
> third" "Windows 2001 and three thirds"....
> Or perhaps "Windows 1999.33333"?

Did you know they named it 95 for one reason? To make it seem outdated
after that year. Some sorta psycological thing. The idea being that people
would feel outdated in 1996, so when 1998 came out 95 seemed way old.

What irks me is that Sun pulled a linux and skipped a bunch of numbers to
seem old. They went from Solaris 2.6, to 2.7, then started calling
themselves 7 to seem older, just because RedHat and the likes did it -- to
seem more mature. 

SGI has taken a pretty neat way to handle IRIX. It used to take forever
before a new release comes out. Now they release a ton of versions (a
hassle), but the numbers fall in place. The releases are quarterly, 6.5.18
then 3 months pass and 6.5.19 comes out and such. I seldom need to
upgrade, the security patches are availbile without a whole OS upgrade --
and I don't run them on open networks. (6.5 was release in 1997 or
something).


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