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Linus Torvalds Confirms The Next Kernel Is Linux 7.0 (www.phoronix.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.world
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[–] 40 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Pffft, Windows is already on 11, and MacOS is something like 26. Linux needs to catch up.

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    • [–] 26 points 9 months ago

    number go UP! let's GOOOOO!

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    [–] 68 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Nice, I hope Windows dies

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    • [–] 22 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Nice! Just in time for the release of PC 2

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    • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Finally! I can move on from Linux Vista, but I'm skipping 8 and just waiting for Linux 10.

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    • [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    Finally! I hope Linux 7 can live up to the OG

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    [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    Meanwhile MAME on 0.285...

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    [–] 22 points 9 months ago (11 children)

    That's BIG! That changes EVERYTHING!!!

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  • [–] 28 points 9 months ago (10 children)

    Mostly it changes the version number.

    Linus Torvalds wrote in the Linux 6.19 release announcement:

    "I have more than three dozen pull requests for when the merge window opens tomorrow - thank you to all the early maintainers. And as people have mostly figured out, I'm getting to the point where I'm being confused by large numbers (almost running out of fingers and toes again), so the next kernel is going to be called 7.0."

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (7 children)
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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago* (6 children)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism

    may present as [...] lower-than-average intuitive perception of [...] certain aspects of sarcasm

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I've had considerably more replies on Lemmy from people who definitely don't understand how sarcasm works, than on Reddit. As a likely autistic person who will live and die by snark, I find this annoying.

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    • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    So... it's going from 6 to 7?

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    [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    But the current kernel isn't called Vista. Does Linus know how to count?

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    [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    meanwhile me still on 6.8

    they should just go with chrome and firefox numbers; linux kernel 144

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    [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Lucky!

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    [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    As always, awesome work! Thanks, Linus!

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    [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Bigger number better!

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