* Linux Kernel Version 3.x
@ 2011-12-12 4:14 Kaushal Shriyan
2011-12-12 5:27 ` Stephen Gream
2011-12-12 11:02 ` Philip Downer
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From: Kaushal Shriyan @ 2011-12-12 4:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kernelnewbies
Hi,
Please help me understand the difference between Linux Kernel 3.x vs Linux
Kernel 2.6. And also i have not understood
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTUwMg about 2.6.40
meaning 3.0 version. And also help me understand about linux-next and
mainline vs stable branch on http://www.kernel.org/
Please help me understand.
Regards,
Kaushal
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* Linux Kernel Version 3.x
2011-12-12 4:14 Linux Kernel Version 3.x Kaushal Shriyan
@ 2011-12-12 5:27 ` Stephen Gream
2011-12-12 11:02 ` Philip Downer
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From: Stephen Gream @ 2011-12-12 5:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kernelnewbies
3.0 was just in recognition of Linux's 20th anniversary. There are no
real major technical differences (except maybe I think KVM support was
improved, don't hold me to that, though)
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Kaushal Shriyan
<kaushalshriyan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please help me understand the difference between Linux Kernel 3.x ?vs Linux
> Kernel 2.6. And also i have not understood
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTUwMg about 2.6.40
> meaning 3.0 version. And also help me understand about linux-next and
> mainline vs stable branch on http://www.kernel.org/
>
> Please help me understand.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kaushal
>
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* Linux Kernel Version 3.x
2011-12-12 4:14 Linux Kernel Version 3.x Kaushal Shriyan
2011-12-12 5:27 ` Stephen Gream
@ 2011-12-12 11:02 ` Philip Downer
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From: Philip Downer @ 2011-12-12 11:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kernelnewbies
On 12/12/11 04:14, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> Please help me understand the difference between Linux Kernel 3.x vs
> Linux Kernel 2.6. And also i have not understood
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTUwMg
> <http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTUwMg> about 2.6.40
> meaning 3.0 version. And also help me understand about linux-next and
> mainline vs stable branch on http://www.kernel.org/
Ok, so version 3.x was just a rename to celebrate the 20th anniversary
of Linux. However the rename apparently broke some userspace tools and
so I believe some distros rename 3.x to 2.6.4x as this does not break
their userspace tools.
Also as I understand it:
Linux-next is new upcoming unstable stuff
mainline is the latest release or release-candidate
stable is a version which is picked to be maintained for a long period
of time (6 months I think) and receives some backports and security updates
HTH
Phil
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