Article 73E3S Linus Torvalds keeps his ‘fingers and toes’ rule by decreeing next Linux will be version 7.0

Linus Torvalds keeps his ‘fingers and toes’ rule by decreeing next Linux will be version 7.0

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Penguin emperor Linus Torvalds has announced the next version of the Linux kernel will be version 7.0, a matter of some small interest, because it continues his convention of not using version numbers he can't count on his fingers and toes, and perhaps cements a numbering convention that sees kernel series end with version 19....

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