[arch-general] Future of 'kernel26'

Jelle van der Waa jelle at vdwaa.nl
Wed May 25 11:26:19 EDT 2011


On 05/25/2011 05:20 PM, 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
When the rumours are over and linux is going to release his first rc1, 
then it would make sense to rename kernel26 to linux3.0.
Except that the lts version will be still kernel26-lts, so maybe 
kernel3.0 would be better. I'm sure Tobias will come up with a nice 
solution :)


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Jelle van der Waa



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