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fuggggg, Linux 4.0 was almost 8 years ago. How time flies.
but maybe my perspective is skewed, as I got into Linux around the time of 2.4 and 2.6. those two felt like Linux version releases move very slowly. But now that I check Linux version history, I see that versions 0 and 1 went for about as long, if not even faster, than versions 3 and 4
@testman @shreddy_scientist my memories are still with the 2.x and 2.6 kernels. They were sooooo long the current versions. And so much was new, even ext3. Crazy/great times.