kernel naming

[Jan Eidtmann]

nice idea!
my vote for linux-* instead of kernel-*
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Am So, den 19.09.2004 schrieb nestu um 17:30:
> 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 ;)