[Gllug] Red Hat 9.0

[Walid Shaari]

On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 10:03, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 07:39:01PM +0000, Simon Morris wrote:
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> > I guessing most of you know already but for those that don't....
> > 
> > Red Hat 9.0 is released on 31st March to RHN subscribers and a week later 
> > for FTP downloads..
> > 
> > Now what I don't understand is what will be *so* new that they haven't 
> > gone for 8.1, 8.2, 8.3. Also why not wait for the 2.6 kernel to be 
> > released to mark a major version release.
> 
> The new version is binary-incompatible with the old.
> 
> Actually, it's backwards compatible (you can run 7.x and 8.0 binaries
> on 9.x) but not forwards compatible (you cannot run 9.x binaries on
> earlier releases). (I think I got that right).
> 
> The reason is that 9.0 contains the newest glibc which contains a
> next-gen POSIX threading library, which is very scalable and a lot more
> POSIX compliant than the old version.
> 
> BTW, RHCEs will not be affected by the new release. If you took the
> exams on 7.x then they will be valid for 9.x releases.

As I said in my earlier post, it will not follow the community release,
it will follow the Enterprise release so rephrasing the above statement
from the rhce FAQ would be

All RHCEs earned on Red Hat Linux 7.3 or prior will be considered
current* until the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES/WS 4[1].
the current release of the redhat linux AS/ES/WS is 2.1. so they do have
two numbering schemes !!!


Walid.

Current : from redhat point of view, they probably learned more tricks
since then !!


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