Re: Pre-announcement?
Jack Bowling <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.redhat.release.phoebe |
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| Message-ID | <20030324214446.GA23668@nonesuch> |
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:45:26PM -0500, 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. Agreed. Given the massive upgrading that needs to be done to get every program rewritten to use either/or UTF-8 and NPTL (in other words, how many things broke), it justifies going to a 9 series. -- Jack Bowling mailto: [email protected] -- Phoebe-list mailing list [email protected] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list