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Greg K-H Recommends New Kernel Version Naming
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| Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux developer at Novell, suggests a new naming scheme
| for the Kernel releases on the Kernel mailing list. The four-digit year would
| be included in the name.
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http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/news/greg_k_h_recommends_new_kernel_version_naming
Linux to get a new numbering scheme?
Under Kroah-Hartman's proposal the first release of 2009 would be 2009.0.0.
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| I haven't yet seen Andrew Morton or Linus Torvalds weigh in on an opinion on
| this either way. In my own personal opinion, I can certainly see benefits in
| a calendar approach and as a journalist (rather than as a user) it would save
| me the grief of looking up when a kernel came out. As a user, frankly, I
| don't care. The current numbering system is logical and systematic so I have
| no problems with it.
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/10/linux-to-get-a-new-numbering-s.html
Recent:
Kernel Log: No unstable series; Linux 2008.7; dealing with security fixes
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| He does not want to simply drop the 2.6 prefix – he and others do not like
| such high version numbers. That is why he is considering a model that roughly
| corresponds to the year and month – Linux 2.6.26 might then be called 2008.7.
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http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/Kernel-Log-No-unstable-series-Linux-2008-7-dealing-with-security-fixes--/news/111143
Kernel Release Numbering Redux
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| For many years, each Linux kernel release was assigned a series of three
| numbers, X.Y.Z, with an even Y indicating a "stable" release, and an odd Y
| indicating an "unstable" development release. Z was incremented for each
| individual kernel release.
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http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Kernel_Release_Numbering_Redux
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