New versioning scheme ? ( 2.6.8.1 )
Hi!
Can someone tell me why the ages old, established versioning scheme of x.y.z was "abolished" and x.y.z.w was introduced ?
Regards,
David Balazic
Quoted 8 lines · On Saturday 14 August 2004 22:04, xerces8 wrote:
Hi!
Can someone tell me why the ages old, established versioning scheme of x.y.z was "abolished" and x.y.z.w was introduced ?
Regards,
David Balazic
It wasn't abolished, there was a showstopper problem discovered before the ink was dry on the original announcment of 2.6.8. Thats (the .1) the fixed release.
Stuff happens. To me, thats a very minor concern. My 11 year old Shelty friend and pet took sick and died a horrible death all in about 4 hours today while we were unable to locate a vet who was available on a Saturday. So an instant fix .1 release is very minor to me.
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Quoted 4 lines · On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 04:04:09AM +0200, xerces8 wrote:
Hi!
Can someone tell me why the ages old, established versioning scheme of x.y.z was "abolished" and x.y.z.w was introduced ?
Explanation in general:
http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3522
(you may want to search within that page for "2.6.20.1" to jump to the meat of the explanation)
Explanation of why 2.6.8.1 and not 2.6.9 in this particular case:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/225784
-Barry K. Nathan <[email protected]>
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Can someone tell me why the ages old, established versioning scheme of x.y.z was "abolished" and x.y.z.w was introduced ?
No idea, I'd prefer for that kernel to be called 2.6.9. Anyway...
When 2.6.9 comes out, will it be relative to 2.6.8 or to 2.6.8.1?
Pavel
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