Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:14:27 -0400 | Subject | Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7? | From | (Lennart Sorensen) |
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On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:07:21AM -0400, Byron Stanoszek wrote: > Well, we just haven't had anything big enough to merit an increase in the > minor number lately. I nominate the removal of the BKL as one such feature, > based on the sheer work required and how many modules you'll need to touch > to > do so. In fact, it would be the natural conclusion to a 2.x series that > highlighted SMP as its primary new feature. > > But it's hard now to predict future milestones, or when an overall paradigm > shift might happen. In those cases you'll want to give Linux a bright new > announcement to the world, instead of it being "just another standard year > of > kernel development". > > Remember, you used to have versions called 1.3.100 before -- and they seemed > perfectly normal back then. I personally like how we're still on 2.y.z > numbers > compared to all of the other OSes (Solaris 11, HP-UX 11)...it makes Linux > still > feel young, showing how much better it can get ;-) > > So I vote for releasing by "features" still, and keep the current numbering > scheme. Who knows when the next big idea will pop up that's worthy of 3.0.0.
Didn't HP-UX 11 come out around a decade ago? Did they stop development?
-- Len Sorensen
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