On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 17:01, JW wrote:
What are you talking about abandoning the version number scheme? .1, .3, .5, .7 etc are development kernels.
As soon as it's stable _enough_ that bleeding-edge users might want to use it, it's released as the next higher even number (.6 in this case). That way they get more people on the bug-testing bandwagon.
Linus stays around until he's so happy with it that he decides it's time to split off the next development branch.
Check the latest copy of Linux Journal on page 96, title "No 2.7 kernel?" First paragraph: "At the 2004 Linux Kernel Summit, the core kernel developers announced they weren't creating a 2.7 development kernel anytime soon." It further states that any 2.7 branch would only be temporary and changes would either be ported back to 2.6 or become 2.8 with 2.7 deleted. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989 SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please*