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The first 3.0 kernel prepatch is out

The first 3.0 kernel prepatch is out

Posted May 31, 2011 10:03 UTC (Tue) by Yorick (subscriber, #19241)
In reply to: The first 3.0 kernel prepatch is out by jezuch
Parent article: The first 3.0 kernel prepatch is out

I don't think that is quite true. GCC is very much a mature code base, and yet they occasionally do fairly big internal changes that, while perhaps not always user-visible definitely merit alerting the user. I believe the decision to go from 3.4 to 4.0 was motivated exactly in this way.


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