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from: DENNIS LEE BIEBER
date: 2020-09-07 12:50:00
subject: Re: Questions abour RPi 4

On Mon, 7 Sep 2020 11:31:08 +0100, "NY"  declaimed the
following:


>My Pi 3B+ has Raspbian Stretch which I believe is one "level" below the
>current Raspbian Buster. I wish computer companies would go back to using
>version *numbers*, instead of Ubuntu Bionic Beaver, Android Jelly Bean or
>Raspbian Stretch. At least Ubuntu uses consecutive letters of the alphabet
>so Bionic Beaver is one version before Cool Cat and two before Dirty Dog (or
>whatever!).
>

 Raspbian/Raspberry OS is a customized release of Debian, and follows
Debian practice.

 Debian does use version numbers -- they just aren't common in public
discussion.

v7 Wheezy
v8 Jessie
v9 Stretch
v10 Buster

https://www.debian.org/News/2019/20190706
https://www.debian.org/releases/testing/releasenotes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history

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