GNOME's new versioning scheme

Posted Sep 22, 2020 22:55 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: GNOME's new versioning scheme by geert
Parent article: GNOME's new versioning scheme

> That's because they are not in the business of selling you Linux kernel.

When they *do* want to sell you something... S20 follows S10 because S11 would be too small of an update.

So Linus did that right: by bumping kernel version occasionally (even if arbitrarily) it makes these numbers interesting for Joe Average. Who can count to ten, sometimes, but it's "number too large to care" after that.