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Linus Torvalds Celebrates 20 Years of Windows 3.11 With Linux 3.11-rc5 Launch

Posted by samzenpus on from the check-it-out dept.

hypnosec writes "Linus Torvalds released Linux 3.11-rc5 yesterday wishing that it would have been a lovely coincidence if he were able to release final Linux 3.11 as on the exact same day 20 years ago Microsoft released Windows 3.11. 'Sadly, the numerology doesn't quite work out, and while releasing the final 3.11 today would be a lovely coincidence (Windows 3.11 was released twenty years ago today), it is not to be,' notes Torvalds in the release announcement."

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  1. Best DOS window manager by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ever made

    Captcha: Birthday

  2. Linus still even come up with an original version? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What a loser. Just let your project stand on it's own instead of always trying to copy everyone else.

  3. Re:More of a party pooper by jones_supa · · Score: 5, Funny

    At least he didn't insult anyone.

    That is party spirit in Finland.

  4. What?? by Dishwasha · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought Linux added on networking to the OS a LONG time ago.

    1. Re:What?? by philip.paradis · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hey man, don't rain on the parade. Better late than never, right? I mean heck, I call Linux finally getting networking a win. If you're gonna be such a Debbie Downer, you should just put a sock in it. I bet there's a stack of users rejoicing right now.

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  5. Re:I feel old by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah, memories. I remember the day my brother and I were playing that game. He discovered that you could go faster using jumps properly. Well, he was playing and finally passed the Yeti and kept going. The Yeti disappeared off the top of the window and he kept going for at least another minute or two. He then stopped and said, "I think I outran him." Right after saying that, the Yeti comes charging down and eats him. After about 20 seconds of silence, he closes the window and mutters, "I hate that game."

  6. Re:Linus still even come up with an original versi by powerlinekid · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hes no thinker or dreamer like that Steve Jobs was. Incrementing by the name of cats is a much more agile system.

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  7. Re:mad libs by rhyder128k · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in the South Pacific.

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    Michael Reed, freelance tech writer.
  8. It was inevitable. Linus has forseen it. by VortexCortex · · Score: 3, Funny

    Linux 3.11... So, it's actually happening. I thought it was sarcastic, but now I see the prophesy was self fulfilling.

    In other words, we'd have an increasing level of instability with an odd release number, depending on how long-term the instability is.

    - 2.6.<even>: even at all levels, aim for having had minimally intrusive patches leading up to it (timeframe: a week or two)

    with the odd numbers going like:
    - 2.6.<odd&gt: still a stable kernel, but accept bigger changes leading up to it (timeframe: a month or two).
    - 2.<odd&gt.x: aim for big changes that may destabilize the kernel for several releases (timeframe: a year or two)
    - <odd>.x.x: Linus went crazy, broke absolutely _everything_, and rewrote the kernel to be a microkernel using a special message-passing version of Visual Basic. (timeframe: "we expect that he will be released from the mental institution in a decade or two").

    - Linus