Noooooooo! [LWN.net]

Noooooooo!

Posted May 23, 2011 20:05 UTC (Mon) by Oddscurity (guest, #46851)
Parent article: 2.8.0?

Please wait until 2.6.42, it's the right answer.

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Posted May 23, 2011 20:08 UTC (Mon) by bmillemathias (guest, #54343) [Link] (4 responses)

No !! 2.6.216 would be the last one of the 2.6 serie

Posted May 23, 2011 20:20 UTC (Mon) by danielpf (guest, #4723) [Link] (3 responses)

Donald Knuth likes converging to 3.14159...
Linus might choose 2.7.1828... the place is not yet taken.

Posted May 23, 2011 20:29 UTC (Mon) by viro (subscriber, #7872) [Link] (1 responses)

Sorry, but e is already taken. One word: metafont.

Posted May 23, 2011 21:27 UTC (Mon) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]

Let's pick 1.61 ... oh damn, we're past that. Then, 2ε it should be.

Posted May 23, 2011 20:38 UTC (Mon) by creemj (subscriber, #56061) [Link]

mf --version
Metafont 2.718281 (TeX Live 2009)

That spot is already taken.

How about Omega --- the algorithmic halting probability? :-) :-) :-)

Posted May 23, 2011 20:17 UTC (Mon) by jcm (subscriber, #18262) [Link]

Clearly 2.6.47 would be the right (Trekie) answer.

Posted May 23, 2011 21:03 UTC (Mon) by a9db0 (subscriber, #2181) [Link]

I second this, particularly as tomorrow is Towel Day.

C'mon Linus, give us a kernel dedicated to Douglas Adams.