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by tracker1 3480 days ago
I wouldn't say avoided.. A lot of the interfaces are still compatible with prior versions as is the software that runs on it, or we'd be on Kernel v50+ by now. Not all software, but a bit.

That said, the community isn't afraid of breaking changes to push future versions forward.

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>A lot of the interfaces are still compatible with prior versions as is the software that runs on it, or we'd be on Kernel v50+ by now.

Linux doesn't follow SemVer.