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Linus Renames 2.6.40 Kernel To Linux 3.0, Announces Release Candidate

Posted by timothy on from the thanks-linus dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Linus just released the first -rc of the next kernel series, but rather than continuing development as the Linux 2.6.40 kernel, he has renamed it to be the Linux 3.0 kernel." And he's tacked on a second dot and another zero (3.0.0), at least for now, because many scripts expect and rely on a three-part kernel version.

2 of 378 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Really? That's important ? by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, 2.6.40 + 0.3.60 = 2.9.100

    I think he meant 1.-6.-40 more advanced.

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    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  2. Re:The problem with incremental version numbers by Tar-Alcarin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There's never been a large enough jump in features to justify a major release increment, yet 2.6.40 is more distinct from 2.6.0 than 2.6.0 was from 2.0.0

    I think that's part of the reasoning behind this; it's just time to reset the bar.
    If you have hardware or software that advertises itself as being "linux 2.6 compliant" today, it could still be up to 7 years old, and not give a damn about features added since then.