Linus Torvalds Considering End To Linux 2.6 Series

An anonymous reader writes "With the Linux 2.6 kernel set to begin its 40th development cycle and the Linux kernel nearing its 20th anniversary, Linus Torvalds has expressed interest today in moving away from the Linux 2.6.x kernel version. Instead he's looking to change things up by releasing the next kernel as Linux version 2.8 or 3.0."

How about Linux 7.0

[Anonymous Coward]

That kind of version jump will show Microsoft and Apple that Linux now has professional marketing behind it.

First number

[SilverHatHacker]

I remember hearing somewhere that Linus said if he ever changed the first number, it meant he had snapped and rewritten it in Python.

Case insensitive file names please!

[Megane]

Great. Now I can haz case insensitive filenames please? [spinics.net]

The previous answer boiled down to "the appropriate time to make the change is a development kernel such as 2.7."

Re:First number

[blair1q]

He should do the recursive thing like K&R who wrote the C compiler in C, and just write the Linux kernel in Linux.

Re:I guess now's as good a time as any

[SimonTheSoundMan]

Will it run Crysis any faster though?

Joke aside, what will be new?

Re:First number

[compro01]

Visual basic actually.

http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/3/2/247 [lkml.org]

Re:3.0 ?

[Chris Mattern]

Repeat to yourself: It's just a kernel, I really should relax.

Re:How about Linux 7.0

[PhrstBrn]

It needs to be Linux Kernel 6.1, but the OS should be Linux 7. For marketing, of course.

Re:How about Linux 7.0

[Shoe Puppet]

Just crank it up to 11.0, putting it ahead of Mac OS.

Re:How about Linux 7.0

[Mordok-DestroyerOfWo]

Why not just make 10 the highest?

Re:On schedule

[NemoinSpace]

You realize that numbering a kernel with .42 is problematic.
Sure it may imply this kernel is on the verge of becoming sentient, But - wait,
what was the question again?

Re:How about Linux 7.0

[Anonymous Coward]

Why not just make 10 the highest?

Because this OS goes to eleven.