Re: Complaint about recent LINUX_VERSION_CODEs

Marc Lehmann (pcg@goof.com)
Thu, 10 Aug 2000 15:26:04 +0200

On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 03:13:40PM +0200, Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> wrote:
> 2.4.0-test-pre-whatever-other-tag since that gives a nasty and
> difficult-to-handle version numbering. I would have preferred if Linux
> had stuck to 2.3.1xx until the final 2.4.0 series, while it's not my
> decisision, this versioning scheme is a horrible mess.

Hey, don't question this cool marketing decision (since a marketing
decision it is). Using 2.4.0(-whatever) gives us the same advantage
windows has when they release their beta code als stable release.

I'd like to encourage the linux developers to pursue this road much
further, this has future!

-- 
      -----==-                                             |
      ----==-- _                                           |
      ---==---(_)__  __ ____  __       Marc Lehmann      +--
      --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ /       pcg@opengroup.org |e|
      -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\       XX11-RIPE         --+
    The choice of a GNU generation                       |
                                                         |


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/