Linus Torvalds Says Linux 4.0 Could Be Out In Three Years 174
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."'"
Firefox (Score:5, Funny)
Firefox will be up to 1,376,265.1 by then.
Operating Systems research is dead (Score:4, Funny)
These days it's all about dumb terminals and VAXclusters.
So he's saying... (Score:5, Funny)
...that age is just a number?
Alternatively: "Life begins at 4.0".
Small number? (Score:3, Funny)
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)
I hope they will at least break backwards compatibility in order to justify the change.
Re:Also (Score:5, Funny)
Closing tags do not take attributes
/wooooooosh
Re:Also (Score:5, Funny)
Score: +5 amusingly pedantic.
Re:Operating Systems research is dead (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Firefox (Score:2, Funny)
No, Chrome will have reached version googol by that time.
Even Torvalds now? (Score:4, Funny)
When will this quick versioning madness end?!!?
Re:Firefox (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Eh... (Score:5, Funny)
There are only two versions of Arch. Up to date and out of date.
Re:Even Torvalds now? (Score:5, Funny)
Exactly. Why don't they just copy Apple's current system and call it 'The New Linux Kernel'?
Re:Also (Score:3, Funny)
Nor do closings of sentences take punctuation marks, apparently.
Re:Firefox (Score:5, Funny)
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)
Re:Firefox (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Rasta Kernel (Score:4, Funny)
But something tells me getting from 4.20 to 4.21 will take a really long time, man.
Re:Eh... (Score:5, Funny)
LILO had error messages? If you call getting to LIL a message, I suppose.
Re:Firefox (Score:5, Funny)
chrome will be 1,376,270.0.1246.0-1349675
But it'll still be in beta.
Really mods? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Firefox (Score:4, Funny)
http://buttcoin.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/disco-stu.jpg [buttcoin.org]
Crisis of Infinite Firefoxes? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Firefox (Score:4, Funny)