Re:Linus Torvalds' poll about “big versions” in kernel releases
by johngd on Friday February 13, 2015 @08:34AM
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Curious how/if Redhat would deal with date-based versioning. 2.6.32 was originally released ~6 years ago and for-better-for-worse their frequent security patching would make the original release date fairly irrelevant.
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Re:Linus Torvalds' poll about “big versions” in kernel releases
by BuildTheRobots on Friday February 13, 2015 @09:26AM
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The problem with RHEL backporting security fixes (and Debian to a lesser extent) almost makes version numbering irrelevant too, though.
Re:Linus Torvalds' poll about “big versions” in kernel releases
by jgillich on Friday February 13, 2015 @10:08AM
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Agreed, even more so because RedHat doesn't just backport security fixes, but also features (one example is the btrfs stuff in RHEL6, which, according to a developer, is from Linux ~3.8 IIRC).