“So there it is. Gone are the 2.6. days, and 3.0 is out.
This obviously also opens the merge window for the next kernel,
which will be 3.1. The stable team will take the third digit, so
3.0.1 will be the first stable release based on 3.0.As already mentioned several times, there are no special
landmark features or incompatibilities related to the version
number change, it’s simply a way to drop an inconvenient numbering
system in honor of twenty years of Linux. In fact, the 3.0 merge
window was calmer than most, and apart from some excitement from
RCU I’d have called it really smooth. Which is not to say that
there may not be bugs, but if anything, there are hopefully fewer
than usual, rather than the normal”.0″ problems.
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