In your own words explain how Linux kernels are numbered.
Linux kernels are numbered as such:
Linux kernels have several releases and revisions. This is because it’s an open source, meaning free to read and study.
Back in 1991, Tovalds, started the numbering system with 0.01, 0.02 ect to represent month to month.
Starting in 1994, 1.0 started. Then in 1996, 2.0 started and stayed. Now the numbering system is in 4 sets of numbers.
The 1st set is the 2.0. The 2nd set is used for major revision. If the number is even, the software is stable and good to go. Odd numbers were not stable, meaning people need to look at the code and make fixes.
The 3rd set is used for minor revisions. Just little issues, new features and drivers.
The 4th set is for bugs and patches. There can be letters (rc) on the end of the set of numbers and they represent release candidate, which means it’s not official yet. Other letters can be the peoples initials that did the changes.
The most current stable version, as of 3/6/10, when I wrote this is 2.6.33. (http://www.kernel.org/) I don't know why there is not a 4th set of numbers. I’m thinking it’s because the last stable 4th set is 9, and that did not change.
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The fourth set is a patch, or security update which means that as of today their are no patches for that particular version but check back tomorrow I am sure that will change.
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