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The entire Wikipedia section [1] dedicated to the history of the Linux kernel's versioning scheme is quite interesting. A funny detail is that the 0.x version
by maddyboo 8y ago
The entire Wikipedia section [1] dedicated to the history of the Linux kernel's versioning scheme is quite interesting.
A funny detail is that the 0.x version series progressed as 0.01, 0.02, 0.03, 0.10, 0.11, 0.12, 0.95, 0.96, 0.97, 0.98, and finally 0.99.
I found an archived message [2] from Linus dated 19 Dec '91 with a note about that jump directly from 0.12 to 0.95:
Note: The version number went directly from 0.12 to 0.95, as the
follow-on to 0.12 was getting feature-full enough to deserve a number
in the 0.90's
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel#Version_numbering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel#Version_numbering
[2]: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/linux.history.html https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/linux.history.html
- treis 8y agoQuote for those on mobile Note: The version number went directly from 0.12 to 0.95, as the follow-on to 0.12 was getting feature-full enough to deserve a number in the 0.90's
- majewsky 8y agoThe way I recall the story is that once X11 was running on Linux, Linus thought that he was nearly done and bumped the version number way up to 0.95. Then it turned out to take quite a lot more work to get stable, so 0.99 went up to "patchlevel 16z" or something.
- tyingq 8y agoHere's all the .99 versions: http://www.oldlinux.org/Linux.old/docs/history/0.99.html http://www.oldlinux.org/Linux.old/docs/history/0.99.html Compare to earlier ones and you can see the reluctance to bump to 1.x http://www.oldlinux.org/Linux.old/docs/history/0.98.html http://www.oldlinux.org/Linux.old/docs/history/0.98.html