Linux 3.0 will be with us soon

    Linus Torvalds still decided on the numbering of versions of his brainchild. Version 3.0 is already being prepared for release. About five hours ago (at the time of writing this topic), Linus had tagged the “3.0-rc1” tag in a public git repository, which clearly hints that after a while there will be a release of the third version (according to statistics - just around the time of my birthday ) So Greg (Croa-Hartmann) will have to fulfill his promise and buy Linus expensive whiskey.

    The only “cant”, however, is that the development branch is still called “linux-2.6”, but I want to believe that Linus was just not up to the task of shoveling the git repository at night, so he will soon fix this shortcoming.
    You can verify on the main project website ( www.kernel.org), and you can observe the progress of events so far at this address (before renaming the repository): git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=summary

    I would also like note that in the new kernel, among other “goodies”, there will also be updated drivers for ATI Radeon (which he will get from 2.6.39), so for those who are used to the old development scheme, when each even release was considered stable, and the odd one was “ unstable ”- it will make sense to upgrade. With this update, r600g card owners (g = with free gallium-enabled drivers) will be able to play with good conscience, for example, in Trine, which was in the latest humble pack.

    I would also like to note (if someone was suddenly in the cryochamber) that for some time now the kernel also has the wonderful CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP option, which is a pretty big step to fixing the 12309 problem, which even became a meme.


    UPD : I would also like to draw attention to the fact that the principle of even-odd numbers is no longer used (almost from 2002-2003, if my memory serves me well), so that you can safely install each release kernel.
    In the current numbering, the second number in the number will indicate the release number, and the third will be used by the stabilization team to indicate the “small” sub-releases of the stable version.

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