“Speaking to 350 Linux enthusiasts crammed into a San Francisco
Chinatown restaurant Tuesday night, the father of Linux, Linus
Torvalds, pledged to curtail the time between Linux kernel
upgrades.”
“Citing the need for smaller, more incremental upgrades to the
open- source operating system, Torvalds says he is trying to roll
out the next major Linux release, version 2.4, by this fall.”
“This would be significantly faster than version 2.2, which came
two-and-a-half years following the previous major release. Linux
2.0 also came 18 months after the release of version 1.2.”