kernel naming

Jens Luedicke jens.luedicke at gmail.com
Sun Sep 19 15:46:03 UTC 2004


Hi !

<perldude> nestu: I'm for linux-2.x or linux-kernel-2.x 

Jens

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 17:30:58 +0200, nestu <nestu at lunar-linux.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> On behalf of [specially] Moe and myself, I wanted to ask
> what you ppl think about changing linux-* naming scheme. The
> point would be to easily differenciate 2.4 K's from 2.6. We
> could keep the beta suffix for 2.6 and call it
> linux-2.6-beta [or -26] and linux-2.4 [or -24], for example.
> Also, I could add a linux-26-stable, that has been requested
> before too. Ideas, complaints, additions... yes, no,
> otherwise?...
> BTW, I know that the package is called linux, but personally
> [and I highlight *personally* ] I would prefer to call it
> "kernel", e.g., kernel-2.6, or kernel-2.4 and so on. To be
> true, this is more a thought, not so much as a proposal, as
> the above. Just brainstorming, I suppose ]:-)
> Thanks for listening,
> Jaime ;)
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