Read more.20-year anniversary considered a time for a change
Read more.20-year anniversary considered a time for a change
aidanjt (31-05-2011)
And there was me getting a little excited about major revisions and cool new features on the existing kernel.
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What exactly are 'random fixes'?
Hmm, new features on a kernel I'm kinda cool about - prefer stability in my core OS.
Obviously the patch mechanism selected by the dumb bozo's who wrote the software I'm currently swearing at!
Seriously, what LT means is that there's no great assault on the feature set, instead the usual collection of miscellaneous fixes that you would normally see for a kernel release. So if they decided to target (for example) memory management then that'd be "non random fixes".
Think LT is probably right - the numbering is getting silly, e.g. the Ubuntu system I'm running at the moment is 2.6.32-32. However, given there's no new shiny features, perhaps his original suggestion of "2.8" would have made more sense?
And I guess that at some point, some doofus going to say that you need "kernel 3.0" to run "Gnome 3.0"... sigh.
But don't you need "kernel 3.0" to run .... oh wait....
I have no problem with this overall, it's Linus' right and if it draws a focus on the kernal then it can't be bad.
Certainly having a new whole number that doesnt scare everyone silly seems like a solid move to me.
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Personally I think it's a bit silly to have a new major release number based entirely on time rather than any significant feature changes, but, well, I don't particularly mind/care![]()
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