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Linus Torvalds Says Linux 4.0 Could Be Out In Three Years

Posted by timothy on from the next-step-only-got-to-3.3 dept.

darthcamaro writes "The wait between Linux 2.x and 3.x was a long one, but the wait to Linux 4? Well, that will only be a matter of three years, according to Linus Torvalds. '"It's just mentally much easier for people to remember the small number," Torvalds said during the LinuxCon conference in San Diego [Wednesday]. "We'll do 4.0 in three years maybe when the sub numbers have grown in the 20's and our feeble brains can't handle it."'"

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  1. Re:Operating Systems research is dead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    FreeBSD in particular has granular (i.e. different subsystems can run on different processors), explicit locking in the kernel.

    DragonFly avoids locks by switching to message passing, which is why the fork occurred (from the 4.X family, before pushing the Giant lock down into the subsystems). They didn't believe explicit locking was a good way to handle the SMP (and massively SMP) case.

    OpenBSD is still under a Giant lock.

    Can't say anything about NetBSD.

  2. Re:Firefox by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Watch this, then come back.

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    Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?