[Lugro-principiantes] Mozilla lanza la versión 17 de Firefox

[Gustavo Badaloni]

El 22/11/2012 09:47 a.m., Soler Carlos escribió:
> Mozilla lanzó oficialmente la versión 17 de Firefox para Windows
Desde la versión 4,  cada vez que sale una nueva versión de Firefox me 
acuerdo de esto:

http://www.slackware.com/faq/do_faq.php?faq=general#0

"Q:     Why the jump from 4 to 7?

The following was posted to the Slackware.com Forum by Patrick 
Volkerding (Slackware Project Lead), at 21:43 10-10-1999.

I've stayed out of this for now, but I do think I should lend a little 
justification to the version number thing.

First off, I think I forgot to count some time ago. If I'd started on 
6.0 and made every release a major version (I think that's how Linux 
releases are made these days, right? ;), we would be on Slackware 47 by 
now. (it would actually be in the 20s somewhere if we'd gone 1, 2, 3...)

I think it's clear that some other distributions inflated their version 
numbers for marketing purposes, and I've had to field (way too many 
times) the question "why isn't yours 6.x" or worse "when will you 
upgrade to Linux 6.0" which really drives home the effectiveness of this 
simple trick. With the move to glibc and nearly everyone else using 6.x 
now, it made sense to go to at least 6.0, just to make it clear to 
people who don't know anything about Linux that Slackware's libraries, 
compilers, and other stuff are not 3 major versions behind. I thought 
they'd all be using 7.0 by now, but no matter. We're at least "one 
better", right? :)

Sorry if I haven't been enough of a purist about this. I promise I won't 
inflate the version number again (unless everyone else does again ;)"