Torvalds finishes with 2.5, moves on to 2.6

While not nearly the 2.6 kernel version people had expected by now, Linus Torvalds did release version 2.5.75 of the highly debated and controversial Linux Kernel, which just might be the last version of 2.5, or the last one touched by Torvalds himself, as he has said he plans to move on to the elusive 2.6. We can expect a 2.6 test kernel within a few days and the usual long wait for a stable full release of an official 2.6, and even longer for 2.6 to be in the actual distro's. It would not be unheard of to see a 6 month gap between this and 2.6, but I for one am happy to see the group move on because 2,5 is, I think we can agree, getting long int he tooth as they say. IBM has said they hope to release new stuff with 2.6 in it by the first half of 2004, though that is a broad time frame.