“The voices in my head also tell me that the numbers are getting
too big.“I may just call the thing 2.8.0. And I almost guarantee that
this PS is going to result in more discussion than the rest, but
when the voices tell me to do things, I listen.”
Editors Note: The 2.6 kernel came out on Dec 17, of 2003 and
since then we’ve seen 39 major kernel releases. The time span
between the 2.2 and 2.4 kernels was only two years.