Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269549AbUJWB3C (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 21:29:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269594AbUJWB23 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 21:28:29 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:20384 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269549AbUJWBZo (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 21:25:44 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:25:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: William Lee Irwin III cc: Matt Mackall , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: The naming wars continue... In-Reply-To: <20041023011549.GK17038@holomorphy.com> Message-ID: References: <20041022234631.GF28904@waste.org> <20041023011549.GK17038@holomorphy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1007 Lines: 26 Hey guys, calm down, I meant "naming wars" in a silly kind of way, not the nasty kind. The fact is, Linux naming has always sucked. Well, at least the versioning I've used. Others tend to be more organized. Me, I'm the "artistic" type, so I sometimes try to do something new, and invariably stupid. The best suggestion so far has been to _just_ use another number, which makes sense considering my dislike for both -rc and -pre. However, for some reason four numbers just looks visually too obnoxious to me, so as I don't care that much, I'll just use "-rc", and we can all agree that it stands for "Ridiculous Count" rather than "Release Candidate". More importantly, maybe we could all realize that it isn't actually that big of an issue ;) Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/