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I've seen Linus loose it with devs in the past for breaking backwards compatibility with kernel updates; I'd suggest this also has something to do with it -poss

I've seen Linus loose it with devs in the past for breaking backwards compatibility with kernel updates; I'd suggest this also has something to do with it -possibly more so than an inbuilt fear of BSD [1]. I'm failing to find an explanation of how the RHEL numbering scheme is date based -please could you expand? [1] As a long term linux user, I have both fear and bafflement over BSD device naming and the lack of gnu options on standard utils ;)

mitchell_h 12y ago
The numbering scheme isn't date based, but the release schedule is. You can point at RHEL6.3 and say Released "2012-06-20"
- BuildTheRobots 12y ago
  Not entirely sure what you mean by release schedule. I found this[1] list which lists releases and dates, but (unless I'm being thick,) it's not like they're minor-bumping every x months, it seems to be arbitrary. And if it's arbitrary, I don't see how it matters. If I'm looking up the release date for 6.3 then I may as well look up the release date for 2.6.32...