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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First Post!!!! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-22 00:33 · Score: -1, Troll

Yeah, after all these years!!
Not a good idea by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-22 00:36 · Score: -1, Troll

Development really belongs in its own branch -- we really don't need distros being shipped with stability problems because they were too hasty shipping out a 'stable' kernel.
wrong day by TTL0 · 2004-07-22 00:57 · Score: 0, Troll

Looks like I picked the wrong day to throw out my Solaris disks

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