Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?

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Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 - 2:40 am

Willy Tarreau wrote:

I like the OpenBSD versioning as well. But they only have two releases a
year, so their number should grow slower. Using the same versioning to
linux will end up getting us to very large numbers that have no meaning.
It's basically the same as what's going on now.

I think using the year is the best idea. For instance, debian etch comes
with linux 2.6.18, it would be nice if the users could easily know how
old that actually is.

I think 8.X for 2008, 9.X for 2009 should be great. It's good enough so
none (or almost none) of us will live to see a need for changing it.
Assuming people from 2101 would rather see 1.X than 101.X. Anyhow, will
linux even survive that long with the same name, development model, etc?
Not very likely.

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From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Stoyan Gaydarov, (Mon Jul 14, 10:10 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Linus Torvalds, (Mon Jul 14, 10:22 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Alan Cox, (Tue Jul 15, 8:38 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, H. Peter Anvin, (Tue Jul 15, 2:04 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Rene Herman, (Wed Jul 16, 12:22 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Peter T. Breuer, (Wed Jul 16, 5:34 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Rafael C. de Almeida, (Wed Jul 16, 2:55 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Rene Herman, (Wed Jul 16, 3:30 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Rene Herman, (Wed Jul 16, 3:17 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Cyrill Gorcunov, (Tue Jul 15, 10:24 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Tobias Brox, (Tue Jul 15, 12:36 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Byron Stanoszek, (Tue Jul 15, 10:07 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Lennart Sorensen, (Wed Jul 16, 5:14 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Alex Chiang, (Wed Jul 16, 8:03 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Lennart Sorensen, (Thu Jul 17, 8:38 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Alex Chiang, (Thu Jul 17, 4:02 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Andi Kleen, (Tue Jul 15, 6:10 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Lennart Sorensen, (Wed Jul 16, 5:11 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Jul 15, 11:20 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Jan Engelhardt, (Tue Jul 15, 7:31 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Stoyan Gaydarov, (Mon Jul 14, 10:31 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Linus Torvalds, (Mon Jul 14, 10:47 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Jul 15, 4:43 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Adrian Bunk, (Thu Jul 17, 6:16 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Jan Engelhardt, (Wed Jul 16, 3:53 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Rene Herman, (Wed Jul 16, 3:57 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Charles grey wolf Banas, (Tue Jul 15, 2:06 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Kasper Sandberg, (Tue Jul 15, 8:41 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Alberto Gonzalez, (Tue Jul 15, 9:18 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Bernd Petrovitsch, (Tue Jul 15, 4:29 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Jan Engelhardt, (Tue Jul 15, 3:49 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Jan Engelhardt, (Thu Jul 17, 1:25 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Craig Milo Rogers, (Thu Jul 17, 3:56 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Jan Engelhardt, (Thu Jul 17, 4:21 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Craig Milo Rogers, (Sat Jul 19, 4:00 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Peter T. Breuer, (Sat Jul 19, 3:30 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Craig Milo Rogers, (Sat Jul 19, 5:16 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Peter T. Breuer, (Sat Jul 19, 7:10 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Rene Herman, (Sat Jul 19, 4:52 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Craig Milo Rogers, (Sat Jul 19, 4:49 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Rene Herman, (Sun Jul 20, 4:34 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Stefanos Harhalakis, (Sun Jul 20, 10:53 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, , (Sat Jul 19, 4:56 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Jan Engelhardt, (Sat Jul 19, 5:56 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, , (Mon Jul 14, 11:55 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Willy Tarreau, (Tue Jul 15, 1:31 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Stoyan Gaydarov, (Tue Jul 15, 3:23 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Rafael C. de Almeida, (Tue Jul 15, 2:40 am)