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		BuildTheRobots on Feb 13, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linus Torvalds' poll about “big versions” in kerne... The problem with RHEL backporting security fixes (and Debian to a lesser extent) almost makes version numbering irrelevant too, though.

jgillich on Feb 13, 2015 [–]

Agreed, even more so because RedHat doesn't just backport security fixes, but also features (one example is the btrfs stuff in RHEL6, which, according to a developer, is from Linux ~3.8 IIRC).

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