The Linux 3.x kernel family is no more. Long Live Linux 4!
The Linux 3.x kernel family first officially
debuted on
July 22, 2011. Linux 3.0 was the first major version change for Linux
since the 2.6 kernel debuted in December of 2003. While Linux 2.6 was a
major milestone that signified a break with the past, Linux 3.0 really
was just the renumbered Linux 2.6.40 kernel. In the same manner the
Linux 4.0 kernel is the continuation of Linux 3.x and is the renamed
Linux.320.
"Because the people have spoken, and
while most of it was complete gibberish, numbers don't lie. People
preferred 4.0, and 4.0 it shall be," Torvalds wrote in an LKML
post. "Unless somebody can come up with a good argument against it."
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