Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:23:11 -0700 | From | "Barry K. Nathan" <> | Subject | Re: New versioning scheme ? ( 2.6.8.1 ) |
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On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 04:04:09AM +0200, xerces8 wrote: > Hi! > > Can someone tell me why the ages old, established versioning scheme of > x.y.z was "abolished" and x.y.z.w was introduced ?
Explanation in general: http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3522 (you may want to search within that page for "2.6.20.1" to jump to the meat of the explanation)
Explanation of why 2.6.8.1 and not 2.6.9 in this particular case: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/225784
-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>
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