Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758276AbYGPH4S (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:56:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754518AbYGPH4G (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:56:06 -0400 Received: from smtpq1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl ([213.51.146.200]:55178 "EHLO smtpq1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754473AbYGPH4F (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:56:05 -0400 Message-ID: <487DA9E5.4020404@keyaccess.nl> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:57:25 +0200 From: Rene Herman User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: Adrian Bunk , 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? References: <6d291e080807141910m573b29b2t753ea7c4db09902d@mail.gmail.com> <6d291e080807141931g3080c94cic94f503c1a18523b@mail.gmail.com> <20080715204320.GJ24533@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 1.0 (+) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 834 Lines: 22 On 16-07-08 09:53, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > 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?) SMP support. Rene -- 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/