No 2.7 Linux Kernel Branch Due Soon

Posted by simoniker on Thursday July 22, 2004 @12:29AM from the 2.6-cha-cha-cha dept.

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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Re:Already happening.... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-22 01:11 · Score: 5, Interesting

I'm sorry your forcedeth driver example is harsh. The driver is clearly labelled as "EXPERIMENTAL", and what's more it is *reverse engineered* because nvidia didn't want to give out the documentation to it. You are lucky someone was actually working on it at all.

As a sidenote, nvidia is now actually contributing to this very driver, however that has been since 2.6.7.

So this line of argument holds no water.