[LUG.ro] Se vienen las versiones 4.0 del kernel...

Gustavo Badaloni gbadaloni en gmail.com
Mie Nov 6 12:08:18 ART 2013


El 06/11/2013 10:07 a.m., Horacio Castellini escribió:
> Según este artículo...
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTUwMzA
>
> the master-chief Liunus Trovals ya planea las versiones 4.0... los 
> motivos no son el cambio de la API, sino es mas un capricho (desde mi 
> punto de vista por lo que se leé) que otra cosa...

Se repite la historia se repite....


-- Sacado de http://www.slackware.com/faq/do_faq.php?faq=general -- 
(Patrick explicando por qué en su momento Slackware salta de la versión 
4 a la 7)

Q:     Why the jump from 4 to 7?

The following was posted to the Slackware.com Forum by Patrick 
Volkerding (Slackware Project Lead), at 21:43 10-10-1999.

I've stayed out of this for now, but I do think I should lend a little 
justification to the version number thing.

First off, I think I forgot to count some time ago. If I'd started on 
6.0 and made every release a major version (I think that's how Linux 
releases are made these days, right? ;), we would be on Slackware 47 by 
now. (it would actually be in the 20s somewhere if we'd gone 1, 2, 3...)

I think it's clear that some other distributions inflated their version 
numbers for marketing purposes, and I've had to field (way too many 
times) the question "why isn't yours 6.x" or worse "when will you 
upgrade to Linux 6.0" which really drives home the effectiveness of this 
simple trick. With the move to glibc and nearly everyone else using 6.x 
now, it made sense to go to at least 6.0, just to make it clear to 
people who don't know anything about Linux that Slackware's libraries, 
compilers, and other stuff are not 3 major versions behind. I thought 
they'd all be using 7.0 by now, but no matter. We're at least "one 
better", right? :)

Sorry if I haven't been enough of a purist about this. I promise I won't 
inflate the version number again (unless everyone else does again ;)

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Saludos.


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