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A comment on Linus Torvalds' poll about “big versions” in kernel releases. Parent comment

Re:Linus Torvalds' poll about “big versions” in kernel releases by BuildTheRobots on Friday February 13, 2015 @09:26AM (#9044442)
The problem with RHEL backporting security fixes (and Debian to a lesser extent) almost makes version numbering irrelevant too, though.
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Re:Linus Torvalds' poll about “big versions” in kernel releases by jgillich on Friday February 13, 2015 @10:08AM (#9044661)
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).
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