[johngd]

Curious how/if Redhat would deal with date-based versioning. 2.6.32 was originally released ~6 years ago and for-better-for-worse their frequent security patching would make the original release date fairly irrelevant.

[BuildTheRobots]

The problem with RHEL backporting security fixes (and Debian to a lesser extent) almost makes version numbering irrelevant too, though.

[jgillich]

Agreed, even more so because RedHat doesn't just backport security fixes, but also features (one example is the btrfs stuff in RHEL6, which, according to a developer, is from Linux ~3.8 IIRC).