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by zanny 2720 days ago
The worst part is its arbitrary. I don't get why Linus is so bent on keeping a three step version number when the first digit has been meaningless since 1996 (or maybe 2011 if you want to be pedantic and call the version change from 2.6.x to 3.x a major revision). For the largest free software project in the world it sure doesn't do much to advertise good practices when informing your user of relative newness of kernels.