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- <li><em>date</em>: Fri Mar 11 15:42:24 2005</li>
- <li><em>from</em>: sonali at vijedi.net (Sonali Parikh)</li>
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" ...Linux creator Linus Torvalds decided against trying to add meaning
to the odd/even least significant number. Instead, the new plan is to go
from the current 2.6.x numbering to a finer-grained 2.6.x.y. Linus will
continue to maintain only the 2.6.x releases, and the -rc releases in
between. Others will add trivial patches to create the 2.6.x.y releases...."
Sonali
Greg Freemyer wrote:
>I just saw that kernel.org has 2.6.11.2 available.
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>I don't remember ever seeing a 4-number kernel revision straight from
>kernel.org before.
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>Does it imply a new method of releases, or did a couple critical bugs
>get out that were immediately fixed?
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>Greg
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