Re:Linus Torvalds' poll about “big versions” in kernel releases
by BuildTheRobots on Friday February 13, 2015 @09:19AM
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I've seen Linus loose it with devs in the past for breaking backwards compatibility with kernel updates; I'd suggest this also has something to do with it -possibly more so than an inbuilt fear of BSD [1].
I'm failing to find an explanation of how the RHEL numbering scheme is date based -please could you expand?
[1] As a long term linux user, I have both fear and bafflement over BSD device naming and the lack of gnu options on standard utils ;)
Re:Linus Torvalds' poll about “big versions” in kernel releases
by mitchell_h on Friday February 13, 2015 @10:50AM
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The numbering scheme isn't date based, but the release schedule is. You can point at RHEL6.3 and say Released "2012-06-20"
Re:Linus Torvalds' poll about “big versions” in kernel releases
by BuildTheRobots on Friday February 13, 2015 @11:46AM
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Not entirely sure what you mean by release schedule. I found this[1] list which lists releases and dates, but (unless I'm being thick,) it's not like they're minor-bumping every x months, it seems to be arbitrary.
And if it's arbitrary, I don't see how it matters. If I'm looking up the release date for 6.3 then I may as well look up the release date for 2.6.32...
Re:Linus Torvalds' poll about “big versions” in kernel releases
by protomyth on Friday February 13, 2015 @10:16AM
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Which BSD is doing date based releases?
Re:Linus Torvalds' poll about “big versions” in kernel releases
by mitchell_h on Friday February 13, 2015 @10:48AM
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OpenBSD and FreeBSD
Re:Linus Torvalds' poll about “big versions” in kernel releases
by protomyth on Friday February 13, 2015 @12:08PM
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OpenBSD releases every 6 months but does a #.# scheme incrementing the point number each release, so no date in the release number. FreeBSD has not been on a fixed schedule and doesn't use dates in their version numbers.
That's slightly a joke, but I think in reality the development model that Linus and the other maintainers have created are feature based more than timeline based. As a developer I would enjoy a date based release schedule. I don't follow HEAD closely anymore but it would be easier to keep up the general view I try to keep.
BTW; In a way the distributions already do a date based release. RHEL 6. RHEL6.1, RHEL6.2, etc.