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Linus Torvalds Confirms The Next Kernel Is Linux 7.0 (www.phoronix.com)
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[-] sahin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Nice, I hope Windows dies

[-] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Nice, I hope Windows dies

Thanks for the new e-mail signature.

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Pffft, Windows is already on 11, and MacOS is something like 26. Linux needs to catch up.

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Fedora is on 43…

[-] Cyber@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago

Arch is on 2026...

[-] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

Meanwhile MAME on 0.285...

[-] wer2@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Finally! I can move on from Linux Vista, but I'm skipping 8 and just waiting for Linux 10.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Fun fact; Linux kernel 3.11 was subtitled "Linux for Workgroups".

[-] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

But the current kernel isn't called Vista. Does Linus know how to count?

[-] _Nico198X_@europe.pub 2 points 1 week ago

number go UP! let's GOOOOO!

[-] myserverisdown@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Nice! Just in time for the release of PC 2

[-] jeansburger@piefed.world 1 points 1 week ago

Finally! I hope Linux 7 can live up to the OG

[-] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

So... it's going from 6 to 7?

[-] Lembot_0006@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago

That's BIG! That changes EVERYTHING!!!

[-] chaogomu@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Mostly it changes the version number.

Linus Torvalds wrote in the Linux 6.19 release announcement:

"I have more than three dozen pull requests for when the merge window opens tomorrow - thank you to all the early maintainers. And as people have mostly figured out, I'm getting to the point where I'm being confused by large numbers (almost running out of fingers and toes again), so the next kernel is going to be called 7.0."

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

This finally explains why he makes weird major version switches. Because it's certainly not semantic versioning.

[-] Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

It's never been SemVer.

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