Salut,

On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 03:33:33PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
> Yes - lets stick to fewer numbers.  They can count faster, instead
> of having a long string of them.  I hope linux doesn't
> end up like X. "X11R6.8.1" The "X" itself is a counter, although
> it is understandable if it never increments to "Y".  But
> that "11" doesn't change much, and then there are three more numbers. :-/

X11  is the  name of  the  protocol: the  X Protocol,  version 11,  as
released by the MIT. There was an X10.

6.8.1 is the current X.Org release  that we did because 6.8 turned out
to have a nasty idiot bug.

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