[Nottingham] Linux kernel hits the big 3.0!

[Martin]

Folks,

Upon the inexorable turn of numbers, 2.6 moves to:

Linus Just Tagged 3.0-rc1
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTUwMg

"... 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. ..."


Time flies!

Cheers,
Martin