I understand this is somewhat less Ubuntu related, but it affects it.So,what is so new about it that Linus decided to name it 3.0? I'm not trying to get information about the drivers that got into it or stuff that always gets improved. I want to know what really made it 3.0. I read somewhere that Linus wanted to get rid of the code that supports legacy hardware. Hm, not sure what that really meant because 3.0 is bigger (in MB), not smaller, than, say, 2.6.38.What was the cause of naming it 3.0?
What is new in Kernel 3.0?
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Nothing new at all. Citation below are from https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/29/204I decided to just bite the bullet, and call the next version 3.0. It  will get released close enough to the 20-year mark, which is excuse  enough for me, although honestly, the real reason is just that I can  no longe rcomfortably count as high as 40.I especially like:The whole renumbering was discussed at last years Kernel Summit, and  there was a plan to take it up this year too. But let's face it -  what's the point of being in charge if you can't pick the bike shed  color without holding a referendum on it? So I'm just going all  alpha-male, and just renumbering it. You'll like it.And finally:So what are the big changes?NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. Sure, we have the usual two thirds driver  changes, and a lot of random fixes, but the point is that 3.0 is  just about renumbering, we are very much not doing a KDE-4 or a  Gnome-3 here. No breakage, no special scary new features, nothing at  all like that. We've been doing time-based releases for many years  now, this is in no way about features. If you want an excuse for the  renumbering, you really should look at the time-based one (20 years)  instead.