On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 06:46:50PM +0300, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > > On May 29, 2011, at 6:29 PM, Ira Abramov wrote: > >> I see no one else mentioned it on the list, so here it is, fresh from >> the kernel liׁ•t - Linus is considering a switch from 2.6.X to 3.X >> soon. >> No technical reason I can see, only that the kernel is going to be >> entering its third decade of life in July. Your ideas? :) >> >> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Linux-3-0-could-be-out-in-July-1248294.html > > > Good time to switch to BSD? It's GNU free :-)
Linux refers to the kernel. Not to the whole OS, which is known as GNU/Linux. This is because GNU is the OS and not the kernel. For instance, you now have Debian GNU/kFreeBSD , which is now officially supported in the upcoming release of Debian (kFreeBSD-i386 and kFreeBSD-amd64). So go ahead and install that OS. it won't have Linux, but it will be GNU :-p > > How much is going to be broken? Any script that assumes that the Linux version number is 2.6.<something> . I'm sure there are plenty of those around. IIRC I wrote one or two myself. Sadly I can't really recall where. > > What's going to be left out? One number of the version numbering. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best tzaf...@debian.org | | friend _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
