[TriLUG] Red Hat 9.0 ?!?!

[Brent Verner]

[2003-03-21 12:09] Ken Wahl said:
| On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 08:00:56AM -0800, Turnpike Man wrote:
| > Just released to me from an inside Dell source... Red Hat will be skipping 8.,
| > 8.2, etc. and going straight to 9.0, code named gingin!??!  *scratching head* 
| > Anyone from Red Hat wanna chime in?  Apparently the final release has already
| > been sent to hardware vendors (such as Dell).  What changes could have been
| > made to warrent a major release?  Curious minds want to know!
| > 
| > David M.
| 
| Hey, April fools is still 11 days away!
| 
| I hope this is an April Fools joke.  Two x.0 releases back to back.

This is probably less of a joke than you realise.  With Redhat's
recent (and smart!) business direction, I predict they will only 
be releasing .0 and .1 versions as $free "Redhat Linux," and the 
fully debugged, stable version will be sold as "Redhat Enterprise 
Linux".

My big question is this:
  What options do customers running 7.2 and 7.3 have WRT ongoing
security/errata package updates?  I have a number of servers
on these versions that would cost _way_ too much to upgrade
right now.  Perhaps redhat should extend their "Enterprise" 
(for the same price as Enterprise AS) for select stable versions
of past releases.

  b

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