Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.8 General Availability Announcement

Ed Wilts <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.taroon.general
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On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 01:01:15PM -0400, Brian Long wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 11:42 -0500, Ed Wilts wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 11:59:28AM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> > > 
> > > Red Hat is pleased to announce the general availability of Red Hat
> > > Enterprise Linux 3.8 including:
> > 
> > > Thank you for using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.8.
> > 
> > Is this a new official version number scheme?  Is it no longer RHEL 3
> > Update 8?  Did Red Hat finally give in to what people were callling it
> > anyway? :-)
> 
> Have you heard about the new update model for folks with premium support
> contracts for RHEL 4?  Starting with RHEL 4 Update 5, they are changing
> to calling it 4.5.0 (3 numbers).  

So to sum it up, if you want a free product you get a single digit
(Fedora Core 5).  If pay Red Hat some money, you get 2 digits (RHEL 3.8).
You pay them even more money, you get a 3rd digit (RHEL 4.5.1).

Vanna, I'd like to buy a digit!

That about cover it? 

        .../Ed

p.s. Many :-) for the humor-impaired...

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Ed Wilts, RHCE
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