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diego
August 8th, 2007, 06:03 AM
What features would you like to see in Linux 3.0?
trustkill
August 8th, 2007, 08:26 AM
Are you drunken ?
diego
August 11th, 2007, 09:39 PM
No, why?

I don't see anything wrong with asking this.
diego
August 11th, 2007, 09:40 PM
It has been asked in slashdot and osnews already, I don't see what's wrong with asking this.
wfarr
August 11th, 2007, 09:45 PM
Considering that Linux is the kernel, I don't know what we'd really expect in 3.0 (which won't be here for a long, long while anyway).
jcat
August 14th, 2007, 09:12 PM
Since the kernel development model changed, it's hard to see what might push them into 3.x territory. Except from perhaps a totally re-designed kernel.

That's quite a task! :)
lubomir
August 15th, 2007, 01:39 PM
Since tree years or longer there is the 2.6 kernel. I dont beleve that ANYONE of the devs who work on the kernel gets an idea to talk about version 3... :D
Changes between 2.6.21 and 2.6.22 are often much (for example the new wireless stack, new firewire drivers and and and).

Here a "smal" changelog

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.22.2

That is only the changelog from 2.6.22.1 to 2.6.22.2

The main changelog from 2.6.22 you can read here (you have something to do for the next hours)

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.22

So, do you think that 3.0 will come soon? :D
RYX
August 15th, 2007, 04:48 PM
That's the nice difference between open-source and commercial software. In the OSS-world there is no need to push out new major versions once or twice a year only to force the customers to spend 500$ for the same app with a redesigned UI :) ...

("Hey isn't this app the same thing as last year? ... Noooo, don't you see? It has a brand new hat on!! Isn't it cute? Now gimme 500 bucks ...")

:)
eosten
August 15th, 2007, 06:30 PM
Yeah. Higher-level software needs to convince you to upgrade - releasing RandomApp 1.0.1 seems like a minor upgrade, and even RandomApp 1.2.0 seems less than huge. However, if you release Random App 2.0.0, you must have a pretty good reason for doing so. But no one's going to stop upgrading the kernel because it's only a minor version change - indeed, a major version change would stop a lot of people from upgrading, as that sort of change that deep in the system would usually break things.