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Linus Torvalds releases Linux 6.6 after running out of excuses for further work
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this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2023
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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.
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.
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.
Even more weird: Version 3 was released in 2011. In the same timespan we went from 2 -> 3 we went from 3 -> 6!
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.
!unexpectedfactorial
I still have my Firefox 3.0 Download Day PDF certificate.
yeah, windows are clearly ahead... bastards!
Rubbing it in our faces going from 95 all the way down to 11 too smh...
Just for fun bro