Linus and the voices in his head......Linux 3.0?

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I read this, and thought I should drop it here;
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n … &px=OTQ3NQ
Also, the original newsgroup thread (still active as of this morning)
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.ke … e550?pli=1
So, it looks like Linus has had enough of kernel 2.6, and as this year marks the beginning of the third decade, so we should have Linux 3.0. He does mention that the breakage from this will be widespread, as so many low-level scripts reference a kernel 2.6.x and they can handle the 3rd digit changing. Linus has no intention of making this kernel 3.0.0. After 3.0, the next would be 3.1. Possibly looking at making it a new major version change each year, with 4.0 appearing in 2012?

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Hey, it gives us a good excuse to talk about Linux- if things keep up at the pace they have been, GNOME 4 might actually come out around the same time as Linux 4.
But seriously, I think it gives the developers a good moment to consider what they think the next ten years of Linux should encompass. Linus himself said that in 20 years or so he'd hope the kernel wouldn't be such an interesting place for development anymore, that it would be so good that it rarely got massive updates. I mean, if you think about it, with the technology we have built into the kernel now, with multi-touch support, and the improving video drivers, any conceivable improvements I've seen in Sci-Fi (holograms, basically) shouldn't need to be programmed on the kernel level at all.
Does anyone have an idea of what features we really need to improve on aside from the Gallium drivers (and maybe getting Intel to actually invest in a Gallium driver)?