[H-GEN] which Redhat?

[Ewan Edwards]

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On Wednesday 9 April 2003 09:11 am, Peter Arnold wrote:
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> So what happened to RH 8.1 etc? I was sitting back and waiting for the
> "mature" version of 8 when they seemed to have moved on to version
> 9....Sigh...

I was curious about that too.  I suspect its a marketing thing - you know like 
Netscape went from 4.7 to 6 in response to MS not being able to get IE right 
and having to bring out so many new versions that they had v6 when Netscape 
was still at 4.78.  :-(

>
> Should I wait till version 9 matures?

I suspect that you'll see Red Hat Linux release 10 before you see Red Hat 
Linux version 9.1, or 9.<anything> for that matter.  Or am I being a bit 
presumptuous suggesting they'll go to "releases" instead of versions?  :-)

>  Is 8.0 mature and stable?

After looking at 8.0, I'm still running 7.3 on the desktop and on the servers.  
I haven't had a chance yet to have a good look at 9 in any detail, but I 
suspect my desktop will either be going to RHL9 or Debian3.0r1 sometime in 
the next 6 months.  The servers will stay RHL7.3 until the hardware lease 
expires in 32 months.  (Damn the RHN decision to end-of-life 7.3 only 15 
months after we bought it.)



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