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		zanny on April 13, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linux 4.0 The irony is that, like 3.0, this release does not actually do anything different from normal releases. Linux will never break backwards compatibility enough to justify a major version bump, so the major version is effectively meaningless.

agumonkey on April 13, 2015 [–]

Or maybe they'll pile up digits on higher positions. Linux 04.00, Linux 04.15; Linux 14.30 (new design).

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