linux-kernel - Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?

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Date:	Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:57:25 +0200
From:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...access.nl>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
CC:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Stoyan Gaydarov <stoyboyker@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	gorcunov@...il.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?

On 16-07-08 09:53, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> On Tuesday 2008-07-15 22:43, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> The 2.6. prefix is like with X which is version 11 for 20 years and 
>> still counting.
>>
>> Or like with X11R6, that became X11R7 after 11 years, there might be
>> in a few years some big change that will warrant a 2.8 or 3.0 (the
>> rewrite of the kernel in Visual Basic .NET ;-) ).
> 
> Jumping the major number would really require some big flag day.
> What was it that made the jump from 1.x to 2.0?
> (Some ABI change w.r.t. binaries -- ELF becoming standard maybe?)

SMP support.

Rene
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