Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:57:25 +0200 | From | Rene Herman <> | Subject | Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7? |
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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
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