Silly Linus, trying to force me into having a Google account just to vote on issues relating to the Linux Kernel.
Linus Torvalds Still Deciding Linux 3.20 vs. Linux 4.0
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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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Originally posted by Ericg View PostYou 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.
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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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Originally posted by Helios747 View PostI 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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