Re: Linux Version Number Description

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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.

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