[ale] a little contract work

[Rev. Johnny Healey]

Red Hat's numbering scheme is too confusing.  They should switch to a
sane system like windows.

3.0 -> 3.1 -> 95 -> 98 -> Me -> 2000 -> XP -> 2003 -> Vista -> 7

It makes a lot more sense if you don't think about it.

-Rev. Johnny Healey

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Lightner, Jeff <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
> When I looked at the Wiki earlier it said RH 6 was released in 2000 so
> I'm sure RH 5.1 would have been in the 90s.
>
> I just wanted to make sure people understood the difference between RH
> 5.1 and RHEL 5.1 (RHEL is up to 5.4 now).  When I first read the earlier
> comment I thought it was saying RHEL 5.1 wasn't something a sane admin
> would work on.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Michael B. Trausch
> Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 12:18 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
> Subject: Re: [ale] a little contract work
>
> On 01/29/2010 10:26 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
>> By RedHat 5.1 I assume you mean the pre-RHEL/Fedora Redhat.   Redhat
>> Enterprise Linux 5 wasn't released until March 2007 and 5.1 followed
>> after that.
>>
>> Old RedHat 5.1 would have been ancient in 2005 - I thought it was bad
>> when I got here in 2004 and found old Redhat 7.3 and 9 systems still
>> running.  By then RHEL 3 was already out.
>>
>
> If memory serves, RH 5.1 was in the mid 1990s...
>
>        --- Mike
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