On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 07:04:07AM -0500, Patwardhan, Aniruddha wrote: > Hi > > You should read 2.4.18-3 as > > Linux Major Version 2 > Minor version 4 ( A stable version as even no. odd no indicates > development version ) > Release 18 ( A stable release as even no ) Releases are not differentiated to stable and development. In the stable series, all releases are stable and the intermediate testing releases are marked as -pre and -rc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/