Re: [arch-general] Future of 'kernel26'

Am 25.05.2011 18:21, schrieb Yaro Kasear:

On Wednesday, May 25, 2011 11:14:55 Sander Jansen wrote:

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On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote:

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Am 25.05.2011 17:43, schrieb jesse jaara:

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This is from recent kerbel mailing list post. A voice inside Torvals head is telling hin that it would be time to go for 3.0 versioning

Everyone, don't get too excited. The reasons for "Linux 3.0" are - "the numbers are getting too big" (2.6.40) - the 2.6 prefix has no meaning, and 3.0 for a release and 3.0.1 for a bugfix release is shorter than 2.6.40 anf 2.6.40.1

Of course, the 3. would still have no meaning.... :P

Sander

I heard from several reliable sources it'll be 2.8, not 3.0.

I doubt that. After Linus discoverted that "2.8.0" is longer than "3.0", and thus the -stable releases could use the third digit instead of the fourth, he was pretty fond of the "3.0" idea.