Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261966AbVCCJnr (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 04:43:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261862AbVCCJnk (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 04:43:40 -0500 Received: from orb.pobox.com ([207.8.226.5]:41148 "EHLO orb.pobox.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261892AbVCCJmq (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 04:42:46 -0500 Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 01:42:40 -0800 From: "Barry K. Nathan" To: Jeff Garzik Cc: "David S. Miller" , torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering Message-ID: <20050303094240.GC9796@ip68-4-98-123.oc.oc.cox.net> References: <42265A6F.8030609@pobox.com> <20050302165830.0a74b85c.davem@davemloft.net> <422674A4.9080209@pobox.com> <42268749.4010504@pobox.com> <20050302200214.3e4f0015.davem@davemloft.net> <42268F93.6060504@pobox.com> <4226969E.5020101@pobox.com> <20050302205826.523b9144.davem@davemloft.net> <4226C235.1070609@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4226C235.1070609@pobox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1204 Lines: 31 On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 02:52:21AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > even/odd means that certain releases (even ones) are more magical than > others. That's weird, since users aren't used to that sort of thing in ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > any other project. Actually, we are: Red Hat Linux 7.2: not magical Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1: magical Red Hat Linux 7.3: not magical Red Hat Linux 8.0: not magical Red Hat Linux 9: not magical Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0: magical Fedora Core 1: not magical Fedora Core 2: not magical Fedora Core 3: not magical Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0: magical Fedora Core 4: not magical ... Sure, Red Hat changes the name as well as the version number whenever they make a magical release, but it's really the same concept. -Barry K. Nathan - 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/