[schwabacher]

Version could always be words - like ubuntu or android releases: 'Precise Pangolin', 'Ice Cream Sandwich' etc..

[underwater]

I loathe this about Android and OS X. I know that Marshmallow is thr latest and greatest but when I check my phone tells me that it's on 5.0.2. I have no idea what to do with that number. I need to Google the version to see I'm still on Lollipop.

[edvinbesic]

Is that really a 'horrible' experience? Once you've googled 5.x and you know it's Lollipop, do you not memorize that? I mean how often do you check your phone for what version of the OS it's running?

[nevir]

It's certainly confusing to novices when the phone says one thing, and the community says something completely different.

[underwater]

It would be fine if Android bumped major version numbers. But if I have to think about versioning once a month then it's hard to remember whether it was 5.1 or 5.2 or 5.3.

[lucaspiller]

I feel the same about Ubuntu, it's confusing that the download page and /etc/issue refer to 15.10, but when searching for packages you need to know that's Willy:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=asterisk