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Linux 4.0 Debuts with the Usual No Fanfare

posted by takyon on Monday April 13 2015, @03:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the year-of-linux-on-the-quark dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

El Reg has noted:

Torvalds looses neatened number [release featuring] non-disruptive patches, Z13 support, and more.

[...] The new number isn't a sign of a major upgrade. As we've chronicled, Torvalds thinks that it looks a bit silly when version numbers go beyond x.19.

As the Benevolent Dictator for Life says in his post at the kernel mailing list:

since rc7 [...] It's mainly driver fixes (media, sound, pci, scsi target, drm, thermal..), misc arch updates (nios2 and x86), and scattered fixes elsewhere. Really not a lot during the last week.

After you folks hammered on the 7 release candidates and gave the kernel team bug reports, any drama seems to have been wrung out.

We previously discussed the never-need-to-reboot patching feature that has now been incorporated into the kernel.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 13 2015, @07:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 13 2015, @07:59PM (#169945)

    @Torvalds thinks that it looks a bit silly when version numbers go beyond x.19.

    so, um, what happens at 19.19?

  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday April 13 2015, @08:12PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Monday April 13 2015, @08:12PM (#169953) Journal

    It is followed by 20.0 of course. In 20.0 the 20 doesn't follow a dot.

    --
    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by JNCF on Monday April 13 2015, @08:21PM

    by JNCF (4317) on Monday April 13 2015, @08:21PM (#169956) Journal

    @Torvalds thinks that it looks a bit silly when version numbers go beyond x.19.
    so, um, what happens at 19.19?

    The major version number is actually written in base-9 to avoid that problem; this won't be explicitly clear until they go from version 8.19 to version 10.0, obviously. But rest assured that there will never be a version 19.19, and therefore nothing past it.

  • (Score: 1) by draconx on Monday April 13 2015, @08:55PM

    by draconx (4649) on Monday April 13 2015, @08:55PM (#169987)

    @Torvalds thinks that it looks a bit silly when version numbers go beyond x.19.

    so, um, what happens at 19.19?

    Since 3.0 was ~4 years ago, we don't need to worry about that for another 60 years or so. Since Mr. Torvalds will most likely be dead by then it won't be an issue.