On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:57:38AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I've long since decided that there's no point to making "-pre". What's > the difference between a "-pre" and a daily -bk snapshot? Really? > > So when I do a release, it _is_ an -rc. The fact that people have > trouble understanding this is not _my_ fault.
My feeling is that there is too many numbers in the kernel version. I think 3 numbers are good enough to get people to try out (knowingly or not). So, 2.6.{11,12,13,...} -- for testing (a.k.a. -rc, -pre) 2.7 -- stable release 2.7.{1,2,3,...} -- for testing 2.8 -- another stable release ... 2.125 -- when last IDE bug is fixed. 3.0 -- stable release 3.0.{1,2,3,...} -- for testing ... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/