Linux: 2.6 vs. 3.0; What’s In A Name?

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A recent lkml thread explored an interesting tangent when Jeff Garzik asked about what was to follow the 2.5 development kernel, “is it definitely to
be named 2.6? Maybe it’s just my impression from development speed, but it felt more like a 3.0 to me :)”. Linux creator Linus Torvalds first
suggested that there was no reason to skip from 2.5 to 3.0, qualifying it with, “But hey, it’s just a number. I don’t feel that strongly either way.”

Link: kerneltrap.org

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