[arch-general] Future of 'kernel26'

[Thomas Bächler]

Am 25.05.2011 17:43, schrieb jesse jaara:
> 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
- some products are "linux 2.6 ready" when they support linux 2.6.9.
- Linux is now 30 years old (more or less), so "3.0" sounds nice.

The original reason though was the first one: Linus thought that the
number 40 is just too big. Except the name and the usual changes, there
is absolutely nothing new about this release.

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