[Gllug] Red Hat 9.0

[Richard W.M. Jones]

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....
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> Red Hat 9.0 is released on 31st March to RHN subscribers and a week later 
> for FTP downloads..
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> 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.

Rich.

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