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No 2.7 Linux Kernel Branch Due Soon

An anonymous reader writes "At the fourth annual Linux Kernel Developers Summit, it was decided that there won't be a 2.7 Linux kernel development branch any time soon. Instead, Linux creator Linus Torvalds and the official 2.6 maintainer Andrew Morton have decided to continue working as a team, further enhancing the 2.6 kernel. Up to this point, kernels ending in an odd number (2.1, 2.3, 2.5, etc) were considered development kernels, and kernels ending in an even number (2.2, 2.4, 2.6, etc) were considered stable kernels. However, according to this KernelTrap article, active development will now continue in the mainline 2.6 tree, and the final stabilization will be left up to the companies that provide Linux distributions."

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  1. what next? by bje2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    we get stories for every kernel realease as it is, and now we get stories when there's *not* gonna be a kernel release?

    what's next? a story on microsoft *not* putting out a new version of windows?...oh, wait...

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  2. Nothing like... by BJZQ8 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nothing like doing development on a production machine! I love the smell of flaky kernels in the morning.