Re: The naming wars continue...

From: Chuck Ebbert (76306.1226_at_compuserve.com)
Date: 10/26/04

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    Date:	Tue, 26 Oct 2004 02:03:03 -0400
    To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
    
    

    Linus Torvalds wrote:

    > Ok,
    > trying to make ready for the real 2.6.9 in a week or so, so please give
    > this a beating, and if you have pending patches, please hold on to them
    > for a bit longer, until after the 2.6.9 release. It would be good to have
    > a 2.6.9 that doesn't need a dot-release immediately ;)
    >
    > which is a hell of a lot more descriptive, in my opinion.

      Yes, but -rc is (was?) (should have been?) shorthand for exactly that.

      Nobody but the fanatics read the actual messages. The rest rely on abstractions.

    --Chuck Ebbert 26-Oct-04 02:03:05
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