[Gllug] Newcomer

[Paul Nasrat]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 04:21:02PM +0000, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 16:04, Tethys wrote:
> > Sigh. I can't comment about the other two, but as I've said many times
> > before, RH are not, and never have been playing the big number game.
> > Many years ago, 
 
> We currently have:
> 
> Mandrake 9.2
> SuSe 9.0
> Redhat 9.0

Redhat next release will be Fedora Core 1 new product new version space.
I'm not sure if the old versioning system will apply yet, I think it's
just going to be release based rather than binary compatibility but
would need to check.

> What's also interesting is just how fast the version numbers have
> changed recently.  Going from Redhat 5.0 to Redhat 6.2 took, if memory
> serves, the best part of 5 years.  6.2 to 9 has taken, again, if memory
> serves, a little over 2.

yes lots of libc/nptl changes.

Paul

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