[ale] Red Hat 9.0

[Chris Ricker]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, John Wells wrote:

> Fulton Green said:
> > This is just one more way RH is "shaking down" us individual users for
> > subscription revenue.  As long as they don't violate the spirit of the
> > GPL (which is why I think they'll make individual packages available on
> > the 31st, when subscribers will have early ISO access), I don't have a
> > problem with it.
> 
> Nor do I.  I certainly support Red Hat generating revenue.  And, as you
> note, it'll still be free on/after the 7th.
> 
> What caught me off-guard is that they decided to leap from from 8.0 to
> 9.0.  That hasn't happened since I started using RH back at 5.2.
> 
> Wonder if the changes were significant enough to warrant a major?  All
> indications I'd seen before today indicated the release as 8.1.

(a) It's RH Linux 9 (not "RHL 9.0")
(b) It breaks pretty much everything due to the new threading model in 
glibc. There was no way this sucker could ever be 8.1

later,
chris
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