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Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:45:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > For 2.6.x I care about getting the drivers _working_.
> 
> Tangent question, is it definitely to be named 2.6?

I see no real reason to call it 3.0.

The order-of-magnitude threading improvements might just come closest to
being a "new thing", but yeah, I still consider it 2.6.x. We don't have 
new architectures or other really fundamental stuff. In many ways the jump 
from 2.2 -> 2.4 was bigger than the 2.4 -> 2.6 thing will be, I suspect.

But hey, it's just a number.  I don't feel that strongly either way. I 
think version number inflation (can anybody say "distribution makers"?) is 
a bit silly, and the way the kernel numbering works there is no reason to 
bump the major number for regular releases.

			Linus