On Monday 23 May 2011, 22:33:48 Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Ingo Molnar mingo@elte.hu wrote:
I really hope there's also a voice that tells you to wait until .42 before cutting 3.0.0! :-)
So I'm toying with 3.0 (and in that case, it really would be "3.0", not "3.0.0" - the stable team would get the third digit rather than the fourth one.
But no, it wouldn't be for 42. Despite THHGTTG, I think "40" is a fairly nice round number.
There's also the timing issue - since we no longer do version numbers based on features, but based on time, just saying "we're about to start the third decade" works as well as any other excuse.
But hey, do you really want to release a Linux 3.0 kernel without serious layered filesystem functionality?
Shame on you, Pete
PS.: Sorry for being such a pest in this regard, but filesystem layering is one of the most important missing bits to excel out of the box in * live distros * diskless computing * flash based systems Even the linux based commercial PBX solution (mobydick), I bought, ships with it. PPS.: Bad timing, I know, but I'm glad, that Al is back to life again..