To je prilično velik skok verzija sa 2.6 na 3.0.Nadam se da neće krenuti opet prebrzo kao što su išli od verzije 0.4(ja mislim) do 0.95.
Nek ga oni konstanto unapredjuju a koji ce broj nositi to nije bitno...
Ugl. sada sam pročitao blog...a imaju i neke dobre razloge za to da to naprave,npr. prvi linux kernel(0.01) je imao 10239 linija koda,verzija 1 je imala 170000 linija koda a današnji ima oko 14 milijuna linija koda tako da je donekle ipak opravdano...
Što se razvoja tiče, model je ostao isti kao i sa 2.6 kernelom. Samo su "prigodno" digli verziju.
Da to je cisto kozmeticka odluka, i to od Linusa osobno. Tko cita phoronix zna... :P
Tako je, već neko vrijeme im verzije ne ovise o featurima već su bazirane na vremenu, al zakon mi je način na koji Linus razmišlja:
Let's face it - what's the point of being in charge if you can't pick the bike shed color without holding a referendum on it? So I'm just going all alpha-male, and just renumbering it. You'll like it.
Now, my alpha-maleness sadly does not actually extend to all the scripts and Makefile rules, so the kernel is fighting back, and is calling itself 3.0.0-rc1. We'll have the usual 6-7 weeks to wrestle it into submission, and get scripts etc cleaned up, and the final release should be just "3.0". The -stable team can use the third number for their versioning.
So what are the big changes?
NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. Sure, we have the usual two thirds driver changes, and a lot of random fixes, but the point is that 3.0 is *just* about renumbering, we are very much *not* doing a KDE-4 or a Gnome-3 here. No breakage, no special scary new features, nothing at all like that. We've been doing time-based releases for many years now, this is in no way about features. If you want an excuse for the renumbering, you really should look at the time-based one ("20 years") instead.
Zanimljivo je da je nekima i nakon toliko godina izdanja baziranih isključivo na vremenu, nakon ove odluke došla ideja da je ovo odlična prilika da se izvedu neke velike promjene (npr. da se riješi nekog starog legacy koda). :) Old habits die hard... ;)
BTW, Phoronix rocks! ;)
