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Versioning with Vision

Posted Jun 3, 2011 13:30 UTC (Fri) by dambacher (subscriber, #1710)
In reply to: Versioning with Vision by leews
Parent article: A conversation with Linus at LinuxCon Japan

why should we copy the dammed (marketing)bugs from them?
- in open source we know how to do better

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Posted Jun 3, 2011 20:12 UTC (Fri) by SiliconSlick (subscriber, #39955) [Link]

To eliminate version surprises for those that already went down that rocky road? :)

Alas, it falls apart since I don't recall Minix 4, 5 or 6, Linux/286 or Linux/386.

SS (who started on that road with DOS 2.0 before finding the bypass somewhere around Linux 2.0)

BTW, +1 (funny) to leews

Versioning with Vision

Posted Jun 6, 2011 4:45 UTC (Mon) by leews (subscriber, #4690) [Link]

IIRC, there was reference to Linux/386 waaayy back, but probably not in the context of versions, but architecture.

Let's see...<google>...http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/LDP/LG/issue17/issue17.txt Ah, 1997.

Anyways, it was *very* tongue-in-cheek. But I still hope to be (capable of) using some form of Linux in 2038 when I'm past 70, whatever version it is then.*

*Probably Linux EE (epoch edition) ;-)