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Originally posted by leif81 View PostFirstly, how many non-geek linux users do you know? I know very few.
You can bet your ass every printed paper Linux mage will have a cover story if the kernel is renamed 3.0. And every linux distro that carries Linux 3.0 will list it as a headline "feature". Version numbers garner attention.
Aso, see Gnome 3.0 for how much a community can be rejuvinated for a big release.
Simply renumbering for the sake of renumbering is a waste of a MASSIVE opportunity.
P.S. Just mentioning to some of my non-linux friends that the new kernel may be named 3.0 got them all interested. And then I said nothing is new except the number. And so they went back to hacking away on Windows.
That's why I'm thankful for Chromium. The fact they release a major version every few weeks with no major changes kind of changes your perception about versioning. Versioning should be nothing besides a tool to mark that something is different from something else.
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Originally posted by susikala View PostNumbers mean shit. Software developers increment them either according to the size of their ego or to some random number generator.
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Originally posted by oliw View PostAgree completely. The Phoronix page-juicing, link maze is horrible.Originally posted by darkbasic View PostI completely agree.Originally posted by Kazade View PostMichael, any chance we can get some links to the sources without having to fumble through several other Phoronix posts to get to them? Cheers.
P.S. It would be amazing if external links were a different colour, like blue or something!
Problem is, some kind of site map would have to be created in order for it to work effectively. I bet that keeping track of all those links must get complex.
Originally posted by DeepDayze View PostThat's because of the driver model that makes IDE/SATA drives appear like SCSI devices
So I can't wait for that spring clean. Linus has long complained about bloat in the Kernel and it might do some good to remove a couple of hundred thousand lines of code.Last edited by b15hop; 26 May 2011, 04:39 AM.
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