Linux 3.0

[Tzafrir Cohen]

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.

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