Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758144AbYGPHxg (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:53:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753763AbYGPHx0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:53:26 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:42893 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753574AbYGPHx0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:53:26 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:53:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Adrian Bunk cc: Linus Torvalds , Stoyan Gaydarov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox , gorcunov@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7? In-Reply-To: <20080715204320.GJ24533@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> Message-ID: References: <6d291e080807141910m573b29b2t753ea7c4db09902d@mail.gmail.com> <6d291e080807141931g3080c94cic94f503c1a18523b@mail.gmail.com> <20080715204320.GJ24533@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LNX 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 754 Lines: 18 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?) -- 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/