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Subject: RE: [H-GEN] Debian - From Potato to Woody
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>This probably sounds like a dumb question, but I can claim newbie rights-
>potato? woody? your obviously not talking about toy story, Are these
>versions of linux, like redhat?

Close.  Debian (another GNU/Linux distribution, like RedHat) has
multiple versions/releases which they choose to give silly names.

Roughly: 
 - The current stable version of Debian is "Potato".  
 - The current version with some less tested additions is "Woody".  
 - The current bleeding edge version is "Sid".

>who knows nothing about anything but oneday will know something about
>everything because she is not too proud to ask dumb questions

That's the way to go...

C.


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