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SubjectRe: I vote for incrimenting the version number to 3.0.0
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 07:56:45PM -0500, Anthony Barbachan wrote:
> Have it more sellable is just a nice side effect, my main argument is that
> the amount of changes and additions to the kernel justifies its version
> being incrimented to 3.0.0. A .2 upgrade usually denotes a minor upgrade.

Actually way back when versions were generally standard across the
the different software programs a .x increase was considered major
feature enhancement, while .0.x was considered interim bug fix
releases. Full version increases were generally left for what most
considered _full_ rewrites and major overhauls.

The increase from kernel 1 to 2 saw, iirc, ext2, elf, and a slew of over
changes. It generally changed the way we ran Linux. 2.2 is a great
achievment but we still run it the same as before, just faster, with
more cpu's, more supported hardware...you know, features :)

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