The biggest version number?
Mike - 4:15pm on Thursday September 22nd 2011
There's a lot of talk about Firefox's ever-increasing version number, and it made me wonder: what piece of software has the biggest version number of all? A brief scan of my Xubuntu 11.04 box suggests than XTerm, at version 268, has the lead, although I'm sure there's something bigger out there. And in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter - how good the software is, and for how long it is supported, is a bigger issue.
Incidentally, does anyone else find Google's "corrections" kick in far too often? Like just now, I searched for Linux biggest version number. On the results page it said: "Showing results for linux best version number". Huh? I can understand replacing "teh" with "the", and similar typo fixes, but it was pretty clear what I intended to type here!
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Maxima vs Macsyma
I can't find where to login (not verified) - September 22, 2011 @ 4:37pm
Hi!
Maxima don't have the biggest version number but probably is the oldest piece of software I use. Its version number is just 5.25.1.
Maxima <http://maxima.sourceforge.net/> is a computer algebra system that is based on Macsyma <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macsyma>. The development of Macsyma started on 1968. It's as old as me! Now the development continues as Free software.
Javier
Here's a 'You Dare Us' challenge
Keine Ahnung (not verified) - September 22, 2011 @ 6:08pm
Make the lowly unloved 'teh' typo into a proper word. So give it a standard pronunciation and think of an object/concept/whatever that it can be used to represent.
Microsoft Office is on
External Floppy (not verified) - September 23, 2011 @ 11:01pm
Microsoft Office is on version 2010. ;)
less is (having a version number that is) more
Nobber (not verified) - September 28, 2011 @ 4:03pm
On my Debian squeeze machine, the version number of 'less' is 436.
In the beellions...
JustSomeGuy (not verified) - October 4, 2011 @ 2:25am
Chess Maniac Five Billion and One is my all-time favourite.
Google @ 10^100
anon (not verified) - October 18, 2011 @ 9:36pm
Google @ 10^100
Stupid version numbers
Anonymous Coward (not verified) - October 26, 2011 @ 11:06pm
How about windows 2000? Hey you didn't say it had to make sense.
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