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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A good idea? by linuxci · 2004-07-22 00:34 · Score: 0, Redundant

In true slashdot tradition I didn't RTFA (for some reason I can't access it - can't be /. already, probably my ISP fucking up).

But it seems somewhat worrying for those who want to compile their own kernels it makes it harder to distinguish between stable and development and also it means the differences between distro kernels may be even more pronounced than before.