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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. wow, linux is cool by hornyasiancoeds · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  3. Stuff like this... by meme_police · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...makes me very grateful that I use OpenBSD on my FOSS systems.

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

    +1 old school reference

  5. 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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  6. Re:What was wrong with the old way? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fucking Windows apologists are more likely to also be running FreeBSD. Mod me down if you like, but observe the pattern. FreeBSD snobs are almost ALWAYS Microshit apologists.

  7. 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.