Linus Torvalds Says Linux 4.0 Could Be Out In Three Years

Linus Torvalds Says Linux 4.0 Could Be Out In Three Years 174

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 30, 2012 @08:46AM from the next-step-only-got-to-3.3 dept.

darthcamaro writes "The wait between Linux 2.x and 3.x was a long one, but the wait to Linux 4? Well, that will only be a matter of three years, according to Linus Torvalds. '"It's just mentally much easier for people to remember the small number," Torvalds said during the LinuxCon conference in San Diego [Wednesday]. "We'll do 4.0 in three years maybe when the sub numbers have grown in the 20's and our feeble brains can't handle it."'"

Linus Torvalds Says Linux 4.0 Could Be Out In Three Years

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Firefox (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday August 30, 2012 @08:49AM (#41177149)

Firefox will be up to 1,376,265.1 by then.

Operating Systems research is dead (Score:4, Funny)

by Hazel Bergeron ( 2015538 ) writes: on Thursday August 30, 2012 @08:55AM (#41177197) Journal

These days it's all about dumb terminals and VAXclusters.

So he's saying... (Score:5, Funny)

by SpectreBlofeld ( 886224 ) writes: on Thursday August 30, 2012 @08:56AM (#41177215)

...that age is just a number?
Alternatively: "Life begins at 4.0".

Small number? (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday August 30, 2012 @08:58AM (#41177231)

It's just mentally much easier for people to remember the small number,"

How about 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001?
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Captcha: impudent - is Slashdot trying to tell me something?

Re:Just numbers (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday August 30, 2012 @08:59AM (#41177237)

I hope they will at least break backwards compatibility in order to justify the change.

Re:Also (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday August 30, 2012 @09:03AM (#41177277)

Closing tags do not take attributes
/wooooooosh

Re:Also (Score:5, Funny)

by serviscope_minor ( 664417 ) writes: on Thursday August 30, 2012 @09:10AM (#41177335) Journal

Score: +5 amusingly pedantic.

Re:Operating Systems research is dead (Score:4, Funny)

by Teresita ( 982888 ) writes: <{ten tod orezten} {ta} {1eganidab}> on Thursday August 30, 2012 @09:11AM (#41177349) Homepage

When the Linux kernel reaches version 4.0 it will be the Year of the Linux Desktop. Real Soon Now.

Re:Firefox (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday August 30, 2012 @09:21AM (#41177429)

No, Chrome will have reached version googol by that time.

Even Torvalds now? (Score:4, Funny)

by Urza9814 ( 883915 ) writes: on Thursday August 30, 2012 @09:24AM (#41177467)

When will this quick versioning madness end?!!?

Re:Firefox (Score:5, Funny)

by ciderbrew ( 1860166 ) writes: on Thursday August 30, 2012 @09:31AM (#41177545)

Nah. Just reset the numbers and call all the older stuff "Silver Age". Simple..

Re:Eh... (Score:5, Funny)

by Hatta ( 162192 ) writes: on Thursday August 30, 2012 @09:34AM (#41177565) Journal

There are only two versions of Arch. Up to date and out of date.

Re:Even Torvalds now? (Score:5, Funny)

by Hieronymus Howard ( 215725 ) writes: on Thursday August 30, 2012 @09:49AM (#41177691)

Exactly. Why don't they just copy Apple's current system and call it 'The New Linux Kernel'?

Re:Also (Score:3, Funny)

by mwvdlee ( 775178 ) writes: on Thursday August 30, 2012 @09:52AM (#41177753) Homepage

Nor do closings of sentences take punctuation marks, apparently.

Re:Firefox (Score:5, Funny)

by Quiet_Desperation ( 858215 ) writes: on Thursday August 30, 2012 @10:16AM (#41178001)

3 years, at 52 weeks per year, is 156 weeks.
o.O Mother of god... are you a wizard? How did you do that?

Re:Firefox (Score:4, Funny)

by magpie ( 3270 ) writes: on Thursday August 30, 2012 @10:18AM (#41178019) Journal

Meanwhile debian will be on 6.0.6 (though they might still be on 6.0.5).

Re:Firefox (Score:4, Funny)

by Robert Zenz ( 1680268 ) writes: on Thursday August 30, 2012 @10:52AM (#41178371) Homepage

I'm pretty sure someone at Mozilla/Google is planning to put the Browser into the Web as Web 2.0 application.

Re:Rasta Kernel (Score:4, Funny)

by dkleinsc ( 563838 ) writes: on Thursday August 30, 2012 @11:11AM (#41178613) Homepage

But something tells me getting from 4.20 to 4.21 will take a really long time, man.

Re:Eh... (Score:5, Funny)

by Nimey ( 114278 ) writes: on Thursday August 30, 2012 @11:17AM (#41178703) Homepage Journal

LILO had error messages? If you call getting to LIL a message, I suppose.

Re:Firefox (Score:5, Funny)

by Zibodiz ( 2160038 ) writes: on Thursday August 30, 2012 @11:29AM (#41178851) Homepage

chrome will be 1,376,270.0.1246.0-1349675
But it'll still be in beta.

Really mods? (Score:5, Funny)

by betterunixthanunix ( 980855 ) writes: on Thursday August 30, 2012 @11:35AM (#41178937)

"Insightful?" Not "Funny?"

Re:Firefox (Score:4, Funny)

by anethema ( 99553 ) writes: on Thursday August 30, 2012 @11:39AM (#41178983) Homepage

http://buttcoin.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/disco-stu.jpg [buttcoin.org]

Crisis of Infinite Firefoxes? (Score:5, Funny)

by tnk1 ( 899206 ) writes: on Thursday August 30, 2012 @12:23PM (#41179493)

Warning: This extension is only supported by the latest versions of Firefox-616.

Re:Firefox (Score:4, Funny)

by 680x0 ( 467210 ) writes: <vicky @ s t e e d s . c om> on Friday August 31, 2012 @04:53PM (#41194523) Journal

I'm installing KDE version 1066 tonight. It comes with William the Konqueror.

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Firefox (Score:5, Funny)

Operating Systems research is dead (Score:4, Funny)

So he's saying... (Score:5, Funny)

Small number? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Just numbers (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Also (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Also (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Operating Systems research is dead (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Firefox (Score:2, Funny)

Even Torvalds now? (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Firefox (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Eh... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Even Torvalds now? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Also (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Firefox (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Firefox (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Firefox (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Rasta Kernel (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Eh... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Firefox (Score:5, Funny)

Really mods? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Firefox (Score:4, Funny)

Crisis of Infinite Firefoxes? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Firefox (Score:4, Funny)

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