[plug] re: RHL Professional

[Kai Jones]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bret Busby [mailto:bret at busby.net]
> Sent: Thursday, 29 May 2003 10:49 AM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] re: RHL Professional
>
>
> On Thu, 29 May 2003, Ben Jensz wrote:
>
> > >
> > Well if something was certified to run on Red Hat 7.2, I'd
> expect it to
> > run fine on Red Hat 7.3 as well.  Major version numbers may be
> > different, but minor versions shouldn't be a problem
> really.  If there
> > are significant changes in a minor version... then really
> it shouldn't
> > be a minor version.  Just like Red Hat thought there were
> too many major
> > improvements/upgrades in 9.0 over 8.0 to call it 8.1.
>
> It is my understanding, that Red Hat simply abolished the
> decimal place
> indicator of new versions, so that effectively, RH 9, was simply RH
> 8.1.
>
> The April 16 issue of Red Hat's "Under the Brim" newsletter,
> indicates
> that Red Hat has done away with the decimal place version numbering,
> confirming the validity of that statement.
>
> I also note that the Red Hat website appears to not include a
> web page
> that lists significant changes between versions, like some other
> sotftware institutions include on their websites.
>
> Red Hat Linux 9 appears to be no more significant version
> change, than
> from RH 7.2 to 7.3, and, the facility for upgrading from 7.3
> directly to
> 9, appears to reinforce this.
>
> However, getting back to the issue that related more to the original
> query, hardware and software that may have been compatible
> with RH Linux
> 7.3, as in Jon's system, are not necessarily as compatible
> with RH 9, as
> with RH 7.3. I have already given examples of this.
>
> And, yes, it is officially RH Linux 9, NOT RH Linux 9.0. That
> is "from
> the horse's mouth" (c.f. "Under The Brim", 16 April 2003).

I know we're talking about Red Hat but I got Mandrake 9.1 off LinuxIT, I'm a
desktop Linux n00b and for what's supposed to be a n00bs OS it's not too bad
!
Knoppix is cool, too...since it's a bootable CD it's a great way to show
people how hard Linux isn't while they have peice of mind their hard disk
won't be touched at any stage.