Linus Torvalds has announced Linux 2.1.129, expected to be the last developer version of the open source operating system before the next major release, Linux 2.2. Linux comes in developer versions, which have an odd second digit, and stable versions, whose second digit is even. The last stable version, 2.0.36, was released just a couple of days ago on November 19 (CI No 3,540). This final developer release is more significant still, since if it stands up to this final inspection, it will become 2.2. Have fun with it, and tell me if it breaks. But it won’t, Torvalds told the Linux Kernel mailing list, in short, this is the much awaited perfect and bug-free release, and the only reason I don’t call it 2.2 is that I’m chicken.
