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I Ubuntu, Therefore, I Am
I was just about to post this. Good thing I search first. except there are various scripts that really know that there are
three numbers, so it calls itself "3.0.0-rc1".
Spilled the Beans
The world have gone completely version number crazy!!
I Ubuntu, Therefore, I Am
Could have been numbers and animals.Originally Posted by Aquix
Way Too Much Ubuntu
I got one of them there version numbers" dunno wut it is, but I got one!!!
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Well dropping the 2.6 prefix makes sense.... though I wonder if they should have just kept counting up 40,41,42,43.. etc, seems as good a system as any other.
Way Too Much Ubuntu
Well, Linus has to obey "the voice in his head"...
He could have also gone with 2.8, or 2.7; but whatever. There is no rationale about version numbers anymore, it used to be middle number odd for development and pair for release. Funny thing is he abandoned the odd numbers altogether, but then whats the point? better to keep 2 numbers instead, which now appears to be the case.
Another option would be to go with dates, ubuntu style, but this is fine.
Other software should take a hint about very silly versioning schemes.
And yes, after 3.9 can come 3.10, and after 3.99 can come 3.100. It is infinite, when the developer thinks a major change comes, just change the first number. No need to use 0.1.0.3gamma-rc-whatever.
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its a funny time in software development. Everyone wants drastic change. I see the kernel number as a sorta joke to projects like Gnome and KDE.
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Before Wine released their 1.0 version, their versions were numbered 0.9.34 - as though they were so-very-slowly getting towards the 1.0 mark. I thought that was funny, and I'm glad Linus is making this a 3.0 version because round numbers are less funny than big decimal places.
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I Ubuntu, Therefore, I Am
Any big changes, the article doesn't really say anything about what would be includes (apart from cleaning old code). 2.4 to 2.6 was a huge change with the dynamic modules, what would 3.0 bring?
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