On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Yaro Kasear <yaro@marupa.net> wrote:
On Wednesday, May 25, 2011 10:20:46 Bernardo Barros wrote:
Hi there,
There are rumors that the next version number of the Linux Kernel is going to be 3.0. Since we choosed 'kernel26' as the package name, we will have to modify it anyway. Why not just 'linux 3.0'? Just an idea.. since we have the fellow project 'Arch Hurd' providing 'hurd' as an alternative different kernel already.
Best, Bernardo
What rumors are these? A quick Google search shows nothing of the sort aside from idle speculation from years ago.
Check lkml.org. Aside from that (and I realise that this is contrary to the spirit of bikshedding): I agree with Thomas (if eventually the kernel package changes names, and regardless of what it changes to, the new name should not contain a version number). -t