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On Saturday, July 23 at 01:10 (-0500), Dale said: |
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> I was hoping since it was a whole different numbering scheme that it |
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> was |
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> a major change. That was the reason for my question. I didn't know |
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> if |
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> this was major or a normal update or something else. I was hoping |
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> for |
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> something like when Seamonkey went from version 1.* to 2.* but this |
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> is |
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> not the case. The reason I was hoping for this was because of my |
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> kernel |
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> panic issue. I'm still hopeful that something may have been updated |
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> that will fix my problem but I'm not as hopeful now since this is |
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> nothing great. |
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Yeah, but a kernel panic is *not* a major issue. They are reported all |
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the time. And it probably doesn't take a *major* change to fix it. |
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To the contrary, *major* changes typically introduce more bugs. So you |
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probably *don't* want a major change. |
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* Major change: re-write or architecture change |
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* Minor change: bug fixes <-- you want this |
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