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Linus Torvalds Considering End To Linux 2.6 Series

Posted by Unknown on from the linux-millenium-edition dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With the Linux 2.6 kernel set to begin its 40th development cycle and the Linux kernel nearing its 20th anniversary, Linus Torvalds has expressed interest today in moving away from the Linux 2.6.x kernel version. Instead he's looking to change things up by releasing the next kernel as Linux version 2.8 or 3.0."

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  1. How about Linux 7.0 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    That kind of version jump will show Microsoft and Apple that Linux now has professional marketing behind it.

    1. Re:How about Linux 7.0 by PhrstBrn · · Score: 4, Funny

      It needs to be Linux Kernel 6.1, but the OS should be Linux 7. For marketing, of course.

    2. Re:How about Linux 7.0 by Shoe+Puppet · · Score: 5, Funny

      Just crank it up to 11.0, putting it ahead of Mac OS.

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    3. Re:How about Linux 7.0 by Mordok-DestroyerOfWo · · Score: 3, Funny

      Why not just make 10 the highest?

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    4. Re:How about Linux 7.0 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Why not just make 10 the highest?

      Because this OS goes to eleven.

  2. First number by SilverHatHacker · · Score: 5, Funny

    I remember hearing somewhere that Linus said if he ever changed the first number, it meant he had snapped and rewritten it in Python.

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    1. Re:First number by blair1q · · Score: 5, Funny

      He should do the recursive thing like K&R who wrote the C compiler in C, and just write the Linux kernel in Linux.

    2. Re:First number by compro01 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Visual basic actually.

      http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/3/2/247

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  3. Case insensitive file names please! by Megane · · Score: 1, Funny

    Great. Now I can haz case insensitive filenames please?

    The previous answer boiled down to "the appropriate time to make the change is a development kernel such as 2.7."

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    #naabhaprzrag, #sverubfr-000, #agi-fcbafberq, negvpyr[pynff*=' negvpyr-ary-'] { qvfcynl: abar !vzcbegnag; }
  4. Re:I guess now's as good a time as any by SimonTheSoundMan · · Score: 2, Funny

    Will it run Crysis any faster though?

    Joke aside, what will be new?

  5. Re:3.0 ? by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 5, Funny

    Repeat to yourself: It's just a kernel, I really should relax.

  6. Re:On schedule by NemoinSpace · · Score: 3, Funny

    You realize that numbering a kernel with .42 is problematic.
    Sure it may imply this kernel is on the verge of becoming sentient, But - wait,
    what was the question again?