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Mar 9, 2010 2:59 AM
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So a new version of Ubuntu or (insert distro of choice) is out. It includes a new wallpaper, the icons have been shaded and OpenOffice has been upgraded from 3.3.1.23.14b included in the previous version to 3.3.1.23.14c. The freedom brigade triumphantly announce that this “new” version is, in fact, the best version of their distro ever, and by implication, is one step closer to putting MS and Apple out of business.
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A freetard on the Linux Hater blog informed me that the kernel versioning system (2.6.25.1) isn't:
[major].[minor].[point].[buildnum]
Instead, it is:
[static].[static].[major].[minor]
As one poster pointed out, that means Linux has had 33 "major" updates in the last 6 years, about 5 a year! Yet he claims that breaking changes released during those "major" release are trivial minor changes.
All this because I claimed that, for the sake of developers, they shouldn't break API compatibility on point releases. Turns out they only break them on "major" releases that contain only minor changes.
Big deal.
So what's left to be broken?
Oh, I'm sure they can rebreak things like the filesystem. I mean, they just fixed ext4 to follow normal semantics of what would be expected, I'm sure they'll think of some new absurdity with btrfs supposedly coming down the pipeline that will eat desktop users data.
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