Kernel version 3 -- did I miss something?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 06:22:44PM -0400, sciguy-Lmt0BfyYGMw at public.gmane.org wrote:
> Looks like we've been into kernel version 3 since about May of this year.
> And this being the first full version increase in 15 years, I thought I
> would have heard of it. I must have been asleep (or extremely busy with
> work).
> 
> Any impressions as to how good/bad this kernel is? Will it work with my
> AMD Athlon dual-core 64 (which by now has been around a few years)? I've
> recently been rather unimpressed by my latest Ubuntu and it's wonky
> desktop, and have been considering changing distros (probably back to
> Debian) for some time. Maybe in the meantime, if it's feasible I'll
> compile myself a version 3 kernel. Just like old times. :)

Version 3.0 is simply version 2.6.40 except Linus decided that he was
tired of having a constant 2.6 in front of the version and thought 40
was higher than he could count or something like that.

2.6.39 to 3.0 is actually a pretty small update compared to many previous
updates.

Next kernel will be 3.1.

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Len Sorensen
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