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Linus Torvalds releases Linux 6.6 after running out of excuses for further work (www.theregister.com)

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[-] [email protected] 51 points 2 years ago

I know I shouldn't put too much weight onto what the numbers actually mean, but it's still weird to think we're only on version 6 after all this time.

[-] [email protected] 47 points 2 years ago

I blame browsers for their out of control versioning.

Chrome is on version 118 now and gets a bump roughly every 6 months. Firefox is 4 years older, yet they started following the same rapid versioning at version 5 to "keep up" with Chrome which was already on version 12 but a younger browser.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Their release cycle is rougly 1 month. Same with all other browsers. I know because I worked on a tool that had to keep up with browser versions.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago

Even more weird: Version 3 was released in 2011. In the same timespan we went from 2 -> 3 we went from 3 -> 6!

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

2011 is actually the same year Firefox started their rapid versioning to try and match Chrome. There was definitely a shift in versioning styles around then.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

!unexpectedfactorial

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I still have my Firefox 3.0 Download Day PDF certificate.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

yeah, windows are clearly ahead... bastards!

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

Rubbing it in our faces going from 95 all the way down to 11 too smh...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Just for fun bro

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