On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 07:47:46PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:The 2.6. prefix is like with X which is version 11 for 20 years and still counting. Or like with X11R6, that became X11R7 after 11 years, there might be in a few years some big change that will warrant a 2.8 or 3.0 (the rewrite of the kernel in Visual Basic .NET ;-) ). But my personal opinion is that we now have an established version numbering with the current development model that is 2.6.x, and users got used to it. If you'd change it you will only create confusion - e.g. with your 2.9.1 idea half the world will see that 9 is an odd number, remember the old kernel versioning, and think this is the first development release towards 3.0... cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed --
| Tarkan Erimer | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 |
| Greg Kroah-Hartman | [PATCH 007/196] Chinese: add translation of stable_kernel_rules.txt |
| Andrew Morton | -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 |
| Arjan van de Ven | [Announce] Development release 0.1 of the LatencyTOP tool |
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| Gerrit Renker | [PATCH 15/37] dccp: Set per-connection CCIDs via socket options |
| David Miller | [GIT]: Networking |
| Stephen Hemminger | Re: iptables very slow after commit 784544739a25c30637397ace5489eeb6e15d7d49 |
