On 16-07-08 09:53, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

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> On Tuesday 2008-07-15 22:43, Adrian Bunk 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 ;-) ).
> 
> Jumping the major number would really require some big flag day.
> What was it that made the jump from 1.x to 2.0?
> (Some ABI change w.r.t. binaries -- ELF becoming standard maybe?)

SMP support.

Rene
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