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The 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 tu
by majewsky 8y ago
The 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