Linus Torvalds Still Deciding Linux 3.20 vs. Linux 4.0

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  • aphirst
    Phoronix Member
    • Jul 2009
    • 50

    #21
    Silly Linus, trying to force me into having a Google account just to vote on issues relating to the Linux Kernel.

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    • brosis
      Senior Member
      • Jan 2013
      • 1171

      #22
      Number 4 is UNLUCKY. Four and Death both sound same in Japanese (Shi).

      Go straight to 5, if you feel the need.

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      • BlueJayofEvil
        Senior Member
        • May 2009
        • 144

        #23
        The sadistic side of me wants 4.0 just to spite those who write for kernel-specific naming (the 3.0 version caused a few headaches due to some programs looking specifically for 2.6.x instead of 3.x).
        Joking aside, nothing really warrants a major version bump that I'm aware of. Maybe give it another 6-8 months and see what the progress is then?

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        • BlueJayofEvil
          Senior Member
          • May 2009
          • 144

          #24
          Originally posted by brosis View Post
          Number 4 is UNLUCKY. Four and Death both sound same in Japanese (Shi).
          Someone in Linus' G+ thread mentioned the same thing for the Chinese language.

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          • schmidtbag
            Senior Member
            • Dec 2010
            • 6616

            #25
            Originally posted by Ericg View Post
            You mean the inclusion of Kdbus? Swapping out iptables for nftables? Splitting GPU drivers into render-nodes? "Major" changes don't just get tossed in and happen all at once, they happen incrementally and gradually sneaking in bit by bit under the radar.
            I'm aware, but if the kernel breaks compatibility with software, that warrants a major version change. The way I see it, a version number should be used as a guideline of compatibility, or, should signify a re-write. That being said, the linux kernel could probably be near the 20s by now, though, in a binary perspective, we're still in 2.6.x. To me, the first number should resemble strictly binary compatibility, the 2nd number should resemble major kernel changes that can make a binary-compatible program malfunction, the 3rd number should be minor release. The only reason I don't think that versioning scheme matters is because at this point, there will never be another kernel release to break binaries.

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            • carewolf
              Senior Member
              • Nov 2012
              • 2271

              #26
              Originally posted by BlueJayofEvil View Post
              Someone in Linus' G+ thread mentioned the same thing for the Chinese language.
              I think that makes it so much more appropiate for some reason.

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              • SystemCrasher
                Senior Member
                • Jan 2015
                • 1376

                #27
                Originally posted by brosis View Post
                Number 4 is UNLUCKY. Four and Death both sound same in Japanese (Shi).
                Of course, Linux 4 is unlucky. And also means death. But only for humans

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                • Helios747
                  Junior Member
                  • Feb 2014
                  • 47

                  #28
                  I don't particularly care myself, but didn't quite a few scripts break when the kernel jumped from 2.6 to 3.0? IIRC, VMWare player went a little crazy when attempting to compile modules because of the version jump, had troubles finding the kernel headers or something, quickly patched by VMWare (And had workarounds anyways) but still. How many things will break this time?


                  And pls don't respond with "Well VMWare's bad, it's not open source", I really don't care. I lurk this forum enough to know that a bunch of you like to make that argument for the sake of arguing. I like to use VMWare.

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                  • duby229
                    Senior Member
                    • Nov 2007
                    • 7782

                    #29
                    Originally posted by brosis View Post
                    Number 4 is UNLUCKY. Four and Death both sound same in Japanese (Shi).

                    Go straight to 5, if you feel the need.
                    No shit!? Now some anime I've been watching makes more sense.

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                    • nanonyme
                      Senior Member
                      • Aug 2008
                      • 3169

                      #30
                      Originally posted by Helios747 View Post
                      I don't particularly care myself, but didn't quite a few scripts break when the kernel jumped from 2.6 to 3.0? IIRC, VMWare player went a little crazy when attempting to compile modules because of the version jump, had troubles finding the kernel headers or something, quickly patched by VMWare (And had workarounds anyways) but still. How many things will break this time?


                      And pls don't respond with "Well VMWare's bad, it's not open source", I really don't care. I lurk this forum enough to know that a bunch of you like to make that argument for the sake of arguing. I like to use VMWare.
                      You might want to look at open-vm-tools. Majority of distros package that, it's open source guest extensions for VMware

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