What was going to become Linux 2.6.40 has, in the blink of an eye or a few clicks of Torvalds' keyboard, become Linux 3.0.0-rc1. There had been talk last year about whether the Linux kernel development team should call time on the 2.6 version of the Linux kernel, with some having suggested that 2.8 should be the next major version number. Now Torvalds has made the decision that the next major Linux kernel release will be 3.0.
Linus Torvalds christens the next Linux kernel 3.0 - Inquirer
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In Torvalds' commit statement he said, "Hopefully by the time the final 3.0 is out, we'll have that extra zero all figured out." Not surprisingly Torvalds' commit ushered in the expected arguments of whether the Linux 2.6.40 update could be justified as a big enough revision to warrant a whole new version number.Blog, news and pricing comparison for Sony Cameras here http://sonycameras.wordpress.com/
Torvalds replied on the Linux Kernel mailing list explaining his decision. "I decided to just bite the bullet, and call the next version 3.0. It will get released close enough to the 20-year mark, which is excuse enough for me, although honestly, the real reason is just that I can no longer comfortably count as high as 40." It's hard to argue against the man who invented Linux and still commits a significant amount of code.Linus Torvalds christens the next Linux kernel 3.0 - Inquirer
