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Linux jumped from 2.6.39 to 3.0 because the numbers were getting too big. He also decided that as the middle digit wasn't being incremented, he'd drop it.
by andrewaylett 14y ago
Linux jumped from 2.6.39 to 3.0 because the numbers were getting too big. He also decided that as the middle digit wasn't being incremented, he'd drop it.
- srisa 14y agoI remember seeing 2.6.42 on my ubuntu 10.04. May be it was kind of an alias for some 3.x version.
- jeltz 14y agoYeah, some software assumed that there must be three digits in version numbers so 3.X kernels were sometimes called 2.6.X+40 which means 2.6.42 actually is 3.2.
- coldpie 14y agoI really wish he would've gone with date-based version numbers. 3.X is eventually going to get "too big" and it will be the same (non-)problem.