Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Dec 1998 10:15:54 -0500 | From | Ed Yung <> | Subject | Re: I vote for incrimenting the version number to 3.0.0, Re: Linux-2.2.0 (pre1) NOT! |
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At this time I don't believe a change in numbers should make a difference now because everyone is already looking foward to 2.2 besides version number shouldn't really matter when it comes to OSes. . . Figure this even Windows 3.0->3.1->3.11 - and each of those had some significant amount of changes between the versions so even though 2.2 has improvements and changes over 2.0 it doesn't warrant a version change to 3.0. . . Besides the main thought to .0 releases are that .0 releases are buggy versions not stable. So 2.2 is much more marketable than you think. Ed
At 07:56 PM 12/30/1998 -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. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Gavin M. Roy <gavinroy@nextpath.com> >To: ralf@uni-koblenz.de <ralf@uni-koblenz.de>; Anthony Barbachan ><barbacha@Hinako.AMBusiness.com>; Kernel Mailing List ><linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu> >Date: Wednesday, December 30, 1998 4:18 AM >Subject: Re: I vote for incrimenting the version number to 3.0.0, Re: >Linux-2.2.0 (pre1) > > >>Not to mention usually, and I believe in the case of Linux, major >versioning >>is layed out ahead of time, with certain goals in mind. i.e. the 2.2 >>kernels have a certain goal-set, the 3.0 kernels have a certain goal set. >>Making the versioning "sound" more impressive isn't the goal here. The >goal >>is to create an organized, stable OS kernel. Than means making a roadmap >>and sticking to it. >> >>My 2 cents, anyway (c: >> >>Gavin >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: <ralf@uni-koblenz.de> >>To: Anthony Barbachan <barbacha@Hinako.AMBusiness.com>; Kernel Mailing List >><linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu> >>Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 1998 10:34 AM >>Subject: Re: I vote for incrimenting the version number to 3.0.0, Re: >>Linux-2.2.0 (pre1) >> >> >>>On Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 10:07:50PM -0500, Anthony Barbachan wrote: >>> >>>> With all the changes in the upcomming kernel, as well as the time >>invested >>>> in its development, it seams to me that perhaps we should release it as >>>> 3.0.0. 2.2 makes it sound like an incrimental release, not much >>different >>>> than 2.0.x. Besides which 3.0.0 sounds much more sellable to future >>>> potential customers/users who are used to MS's (as well as others') bad >>>> habit of taking three versions to get thing right. >>> >>>Number cosmetics ... >>> >>> Ralf >>> >>>- >>>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >>>the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu >>>Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >>> >> > > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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