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kernel development model??

Posted Oct 21, 2004 19:34 UTC (Thu) by pivot (guest, #588)
In reply to: kernel development model?? by tjasper
Parent article: MODULE_PARM deprecated

I think the reals reason is that they are slowing down the release number cycle so that it can become less or equal to PI. With each successive release, the kernel developers can then claim to have calculated another digit of PI.

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Posted Oct 23, 2004 1:09 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Since this joke is already used by TeX (Pi) and METAFONT (e) we should probably invent something new - there are enough interesting constants in the world...

kernel development model??

Posted Oct 27, 2004 16:01 UTC (Wed) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]

Actually, the kernel version numbers are closest to e, so that would be the one to shoot for, perhaps.