Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261220AbUJWOrL (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2004 10:47:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261216AbUJWOrK (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2004 10:47:10 -0400 Received: from adsl-20-74.swiftdsl.com.au ([218.214.20.74]:13444 "EHLO gamma.soldator.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261207AbUJWOqf (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2004 10:46:35 -0400 Message-ID: <417A6EC9.5000503@swiftdsl.com.au> Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 00:46:33 +1000 From: Taso Hatzi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: The naming wars continue... References: <20041023151819.GB2540@dantooine> In-Reply-To: <20041023151819.GB2540@dantooine> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 762 Lines: 18 On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 03:40:06 +0200, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 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 Drop the '2.'. What would make you go from 2 to 3 and realistically, is it likely to happen? In any case, if you replace the '-rc' suffix with just a number it will be interpreted as 2.x.y.1 is better than 2.x.y which is a nonsense. The "-rc" nomenclature makes it clear that the release will be 2.x.y - 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/