Distro version numbers - Was:; Re: [Gllug] RH 7.1 -> 7.2 upgrade problems

[Xander D Harkness]

I would guess that it is the vendors playing chase the leader (in terms
of release number)

I noticed that Red Hat were very quick to put out 7.0 after SuSE had
released SuSE version 7.X - the same thing was also present in the
Office suites too with Corel matching M$ all through 7-9, then 2000.

In addition I would like to give a little more information as to the
difficulties I have had with 7.2.

They solely relate to gnome, I have been unable to reproduce the
difficulty when running KDE.

I leave the system up for a day and then press CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE and it
kills the box.  I cannot ssh in or ping the box.

I have yet to try another window manager other than sawfish - that is
the next step.

Hardware is a Compaq Deskpro, 128Mb RAM, 10Gb HD, Intel 82810E 16Mb
graphics card(on board), SMC and 3com network cards

I would guess that it is probably quite stable without X; however I was
shocked as I had not seen so many kernel panics or something in
user-space having such a bad effect on the rest of the rest of the
machine.

Going to have another play to see what else I can make it do ;-)

Cheers
Xander


On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 14:15, Colin Murphy wrote:
> Xander D Harkness wrote:
> 
> > I am going to stay on 7.1 until 8.
> > 
> I take it you don't expect to see a 7.3, let alone a 7.9!
> 
> 
> Why do the version numbers seem to jump in this way?
> 
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