Re: Pre-announcement?

On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 14:41, William Hooper wrote:
> The Matt said:
> > On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 13:45, William Hooper wrote:
> >> Rick Johnson said:
> >> > Michael St. Laurent wrote:
> >> >> I just got an end-of-life notification for an old system.[snip]
> >>
> >> If you have a basic subscription to RHN you get an announcement also.
> >>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Red Hat 9.0? What happened to 8.1?
> >>
> >> Binary compatibility.  RH always goes to x.0 when they don't preserve
> >> binary compatibility.  Now you know why some people (like me) think it
> >> was silly to be calling it RH 8.1 beta in the newsgroups.
> >
> > Wait, binary broke between 8.0 and Phoebe?  I thought Phoebe used gcc
> > 3.2 and glibc 2.3, or did I not look close enough?  (I'm not on my
> > Phoebe=home machine at the moment.)
> >
> > Are they going to go to gcc 3.3 or 3.4, then?
> 
> I was thinking more along the lines of the Native POSIX Thread Library
> (NPTL) that seemed to break a lot of things (binary wise).  As an example,
> you can't run the Phoebe httpd binary on 8.0.

Ahh.  Thanks to all who replied.  I guess I never ran into a binary
where this happened.  Thus, I never checked the RELEASE-NOTES for a
reason why.
-- 
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