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		_pfxa on April 21, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) If someone some day decides to commit a pedantocide, the first thing he'll do will be to compile a list of stack exchange mods. Silly joke aside, this sort of release scheme is really confusing to me, lts and stable branches with normal version numbers are way more simple. Besides, these uncommon words are easily forgotten.

Karunamon on April 21, 2016 [–]

They use both, though. The word gets used in various places in packaging schemes, the number gets used everywhere it matters.

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