[Gllug] Red Hat 9.0

[Jason Clifford]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Simon Morris wrote:

> 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.

I suspect the decision is being heavily influenced by the marketing types 
who usually find it easier to sell a major point revision rather than a 
minor.

I listened to similar advise when I name Definite Linux as version 7.0 
instead of 6.2 for the commercial release.

Jason Clifford
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