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    SubjectRe: The naming wars continue...
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    On 10/23/2004 07:05 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > Ok,
    > Linux-2.6.10-rc1 is out there for your pleasure.
    >
    > I thought long and hard about the name of this release (*), since one of
    > the main complaints about 2.6.9 was the apparently release naming scheme.
    >
    > Should it be "-rc1"? Or "-pre1" to show it's not really considered release
    > quality yet? Or should I make like a rocket scientist, and count _down_
    > instead of up? Should I make names based on which day of the week the
    > release happened? Questions, questions..

    rc is release candidate. Which means its close to a release. Shouldn't
    this be more a -test? -pre? count down? -rc-1 ? is this -1 or dash 1? :)

    Well I think better stick with the count up way ...

    Or is the time come, where the shall be a split to a real dev line ...

    lg, clemens
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