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I blame browsers for this... They were the ones who started the "version inflation", where a new major version meant almost nothing... and everything else follo
by ajsnigrutin 4y ago
I blame browsers for this... They were the ones who started the "version inflation", where a new major version meant almost nothing... and everything else followed slowly.
The problem i see is, what's next? Google chrome is at 106... a few more years, and 200.. 300? What happens if linus runs out of fingers for the major number too?
I miss the "good old times", where 2.4.17->2.4.17.1 meant a minor patch, ->2.4.18 meant a new version with some new features, -> 2.6.x meant some large changes, and 3.x meant something huge, with possible backwards incompatibilities and making you choose, between a mature 2.x version vs a newish 3.x version.
- eesmith 4y agoThe "good old times" include Solaris 2.6 -> Solaris 7 ;)
- gruturo 4y agoWhile true, that was also SunOS 5.6 to SunOS 5.7. One name for the marketing brochures, one for techies (and their scripts). Works for me.
- ChrisRR 4y agoLinux version 2 was release in June 1996, and v3 in July 2011 15 years later. Everything in-between was incremental. This massively predates web browsers with 100 versions
- ajsnigrutin 4y agoLinux v3 should be 2.6.40 Also in 2011 firefox went from "slow versioning" (up to version 4) to a new major version number every few months... the unofficial reason was, that chrome was "overtaking" firefox in version numbers, and "higher number == better browser" (chrome went from 9 to 16 that year).