[PLUG] It's Springtime, so Companies are Migrating

[Robert Kopp]

--- Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 May 2005, Dean S. Messing wrote:
> 
> > Seriously, I've always found it amusing that the
> different Linux 
> > distributions (and I guess Solaris), although on
> completely 
> > different development paths, have pretty well
> tracked each other's 
> > version numbers 

> Red Hat's versioning dominates. All the way up to
> Red Hat Linux 9, Red 
> Hat had a very consistent, sane policy behind its
> version numbers. 
> Basically, a major version bump meant that a) there
> was a major new 
> kernel version or b) a core component like gcc or
> glibc went through 
> an upgrade that introduced binary incompatibilities.
> 
The glaring exception was 7.0, the last RH version to
use a 2.2 kernel. Most thought it should have had a
2.4 kernel when released. 

Robert "Tim" Kopp
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