Torvalds confirms there will be no Linux kernel 3.0

I stumbled across an interesting interview with Linus Torvalds over at apcmag.com in which the man himself would appear to be confirming that there will be no Linux kernel 3.0

The first hints are given when he responds to a question concerning why the 2.6 kernel has been around for so long, and explains his reasoning as to why a multi-year development cycle doesn’t work concluding that the 2.6 base kernel is in such good shape that there is no pressing reason to go back to the old ‘everything changes’ development model. Torvalds adds “that means that we’ll keep with the 2.6.x codebase, and just incrementally improve on it.”

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