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Linus on Kernel Version Numbering

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the you're-using-slashdot-T_2_5_0_212 dept.

walshy007 writes "In a recent thread it was asked what it would take for an 'unstable' 2.7 development tree to be created, to which Linus replied: 'Nothing. I'm not going back to the old model. The new model is so much better that it's not even worth entertaining as a theory to go back. That said, I _am_ considering changing just the numbering. Not to go back to the old model, but because a constantly increasing minor number leads to big numbers. I'm not all that thrilled with "26" as a number: it's hard to remember. I think the time-based releases (ie the "2 weeks of merge window until -rc1, followed by roughly two months of stabilization") has been so successful that I'd prefer to skip the version numbering model too. We don't do releases based on "features" any more, so why should we do version _numbering_ based on "features"?'"

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  1. Re:Linus... by oliverthered · · Score: 0, Troll

    that's also why there are no drivers and linux isn't killing windows on the desktop.

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  2. Re:A suggestion by eln · · Score: 0, Troll

    If Windows had a kernel numbered 1.33.7 with a beta name of "Loopy Longhorn", would it be a better finished product?

    Well, it could hardly be any worse...

  3. Re:Linus... by oliverthered · · Score: 0, Troll

    like that's going to happen.

    maybe they should try to change something they have control of.

    are there any other os's out there that aren't stable in major revisions? are they all a pile of crap that run slow as a dog on most hardware.

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  4. Re:Linus... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    see, that's the issue isn't it? is that the point of linux? to be a windows replacement? that ideology right there is what gave us ubuntu, linux for morons, and ushered in countless new linux users that will never "learn" linux.

    frankly i like linux much better as a free stable unix like operating system. quit fucking up my good thing trying to water it down for easy consumption by retards. /rant

  5. Re:Linus... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    that's also why there are no drivers and linux isn't killing windows on the desktop.

    Why does it HAVE TO KILL WINDOWS? Seriously.

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  7. Re:Linus... by TheSeer2 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Not that I have any karma to waste, but it's called a free market, dumb arse.