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From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
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Subject: Re: The naming wars continue...
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 10:52:29 +0200
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Hi, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> However, for some reason four numbers just looks visually too obnoxious to
> me

If you do something Really Big it's time to call the kernel 3.whatever.
If not, the new release management scheme suggests that the release
numbers are likely to stay within the 2.6 frame anyway.

Thus, the .6 is superfluous and can be dropped. Bingo, you have three
numbers again.

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Matthias Urlichs   |   {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de   |  smurf@smurf.noris.de

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