[Gllug] Red Hat 9.0

[Ian Northeast]

Simon Morris wrote:

> 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.

AIUI from the many NG discussions on the subject, they have upgraded
glibc so that it is not binary compatible with 8.0 so it has to be a
major release.

They have often produced major releases without updating the kernel
release. IIRC 7.0 had 2.2, 7.1 had 2.4, 8.0 has 2.4. There doesn't seem
to be a lot of correalation between major release numbers and kernel
versions.

Regards, Ian

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