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Revamped Linux Kernel Numbering Concluded

kernel_dan writes "Following on the heels of a prior discussion about a kernel numbering scheme, KernelTrap has the conclusion. From summary: "Linus Torvalds decided against trying to add meaning to the odd/even least significant number. Instead, the new plan is to go from the current 2.6.x numbering to a finer-grained 2.6.x.y. Linus will continue to maintain only the 2.6.x releases, and the -rc releases in between. Others will add trivial patches to create the 2.6.x.y releases. Linus cautions that the task of maintaining a 2.6.x.y tree is not going to be enjoyable.'" Torvalds suggested specific guidelines to alleviate burn-out of the .y maintainer and Greg KH volunteered to begin maintainership."

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  1. fuck i wish i wasnt banned from modding by mnemonic_ · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    +1 old school reference

  2. Re:Here's an idea... by X0563511 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They need a tag that tells the parser to ignore any other tags between them. Not touch the formatting or anything, just ignore ALL tags up till the closing tags.

    <ignore></ignore> would work nicely....

    BTW, why does "plain old text" parse HTML when there is the "html-formatted" selection?

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  3. Re:release numbering ad absurdum by mattyrobinson69 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    it does come with gentoo (its in portage). it comes with vidalinux out of the box too.

    It doesn't include a picture of each ebuild because thats not in the ebuild spec.