Gotta bump it sometime, although the fact that the major version is now fairly arbitrary gives some credibility to what I like to call the "Chrome" versioning scheme. Next release, Linux 6, 7, 8, etc.

EDIT: I mean, at this point I guess you'd say it's just basically SemVer.

I want linus to be happy! Don't you?

That's correct... they moved forward 398 major releases since the this article was released.

Archived link: http://archive.is/u325V

It seems to have been fixed now.