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From the above link (emphasize is mine)

> This release increases the major version number to 5. This change does not mean anything and does not affect programs in any way, it just makes Linus happy.

Oh...


I want linus to be happy! Don't you?


Gotta bump it sometime, although the fact that the major version is now fairly arbitrary gives some credibility to what I like to call the "Chrome" versioning scheme. Next release, Linux 6, 7, 8, etc.

EDIT: I mean, at this point I guess you'd say it's just basically SemVer.


> EDIT: I mean, at this point I guess you'd say it's just basically SemVer.

No, it specifically is not semver or indeed anything else meaningful.


Link gives a 403


That's correct... they moved forward 398 major releases since the this article was released.



It seems to have been fixed now.




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