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-<div class="article" lang="en">
-<div class="titlepage">
-<div>
-<div>
-<h1 class="title"><a name="history"></a>History of Linux at Red
-Hat</h1>
-</div>
-<div>
-<p class="copyright">Copyright © 2003 Red Hat, Inc.</p>
-</div>
-<div>
-<div class="abstract">
-<p class="title"><b>Abstract</b></p>
-<p>There has been over a decade of Linux development at Red Hat. This
-document describes that history, particularly focusing on the
-development themes for each release of Linux provided by Red Hat.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<hr></div>
-<div class="section" lang="en">
-<div class="titlepage">
-<div>
-<div>
-<h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name=
-"releases"></a>Release History</h2>
-</div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p>“<span class="quote">You know, it's a funny thing. We go
-ahead and do things, and afterward, people go and start making
-history out of it.</span>” — Fred Weick, Aircraft
-Designer. For the first decade or so, we did not set out to write
-the history of Red Hat Linux, so some of this data is a bit fuzzy
-or conflicting. We hope to do more research into our own past to
-give more useful data. This history is embryonic. It is intended to
-give some sense of where we have been, to help build a shared
-understanding of what we did right, as well as what we have done
-wrong, in order to continue a tradition of excellence.</p>
-
-<p>In the following table, the Version number is prefaced by
-"RHL" for Red Hat Linux, "RHEL" for Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
-and "FC" for Fedora Core.</p>
-
-<div class="table"><a name="id3080469"></a>
-<table summary="Release History" border="1">
-<colgroup>
-<col align="left">
-<col align="left">
-<col align="left">
-<col align="left"></colgroup>
-<thead>
-<tr>
-<th align="left">Date</th>
-<th align="left">Version</th>
-<th align="left">Code Name (or Release Name)</th>
-<th align="left">Description</th>
-</tr>
-</thead>
-<tbody>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">July 29 1994</td>
-<td align="left">n/a</td>
-<td align="left">Preview (or Beta)</td>
-<td align="left">
-<p>Initial test release, not distributed widely or publicly, built
-on Red Hat's original package management system, <b class=
-"command">RPP</b>. This was called "Red Hat Software Linux" and
-abbreviated "RHS Linux" in the manuals and other accompanying
-documentation, and was provided on a single CD with an unmarked
-solid red label. The letter accompanying it thanked the recipient
-for <span class="emphasis"><em>purchasing the beta
-version</em></span> and was signed by Marc Ewing (Red Hat's
-founder) and Damien Neil (Red Hat's first employee, a summer
-intern). It used a 1.1.18 development series kernel. Reports of a
-version number for this product appear to be exaggerated.</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">31 October 1994</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 0.9</td>
-<td align="left">Halloween</td>
-<td align="left">
-<p>First widely-available beta release of Red Hat Linux. It was
-still a purchased beta, but at least now it came with
-documentation. Users had their choice of the 1.0.9 (stable) or
-1.1.54 (development) Linux kernel. The manual still referred in at
-least one place to the 1.1.18 kernel shipped just a few months
-previously. The manual also suggested that most users would not use
-the <b class="command">rpp</b> program to install software;
-instead, they would use the Tcl/Tk LIM (Linux Installation Manager)
-graphical front end.</p>
-<p>One of the critical factors that made RHS Linux a success even
-as a beta was the focus on graphical configuration tools; even this
-early beta had graphical tools to configure users and groups,
-/etc/fstab, time and date (this tool even had an easter egg!), and
-most importantly, networking. Few people today recall the pain of
-setting up networking on Linux completely from scratch, following
-steps in a long HOWTO document, and then going through the process
-again after installing (not upgrading to) every new version of
-their distribution they installed.</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">May 1995</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 1.0</td>
-<td align="left">Mother's Day</td>
-<td align="left">
-<p>First non-beta release of Red Hat Linux, it was not released on
-the 13th (Mothers' Day that year) but that was the closest holiday,
-and so it got its name. Built on the 1.2.8 kernel, this release
-introduced the name "Red Hat Commercial Linux" instead of "Red Hat
-Software Linux", and replaced the very tall top hat logo with an
-image of a man walking quickly, carrying a briefcase, and holding
-on to a red hat. This was the first release done after ACC
-Bookstores (Bob Young) bought out Red Hat Software, Inc. (Mark
-Ewing) and adopted the better name. (ACC Bookstores was so named in
-order to appear first alphabetically.)</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">Late Summer 1995</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 1.1</td>
-<td align="left">Mother's Day+0.1</td>
-<td align="left">
-<p>Bug fix release. 1.2.11 or 1.2.13 kernel, depending on exactly
-which version you got! Known in at least one incarnation as "The
-Official Red Hat Commercial Linux". The name, for reasons lost in
-time has always been pronounced "Mother's Day Plus One".</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">Later Summer 1995</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 2.0 beta</td>
-<td align="left">?</td>
-<td align="left">
-<p>Beta of first release to use RPM, which meant that upgrades from
-earlier releases were not supported. This version of RPM was
-written in Perl for quick development. First release using the ELF
-format for libraries and executables; previous releases used the
-"a.out" format.</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">Early Fall 1995</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 2.0</td>
-<td align="left">?</td>
-<td align="left">
-<p>First formal release using RPM. Marketing typography called this
-"Red Hat LiNUX".</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">November 1995</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 2.1</td>
-<td align="left">?</td>
-<td align="left">
-<p>Bug fix release. Digital (remember them?) did a promotional CD
-of "Red Hat 2.1 LiNUX" for the x86 platform as a teaser for the
-forthcoming release of a Red Hat Software product for their Alpha
-platform; "Red Hat Linux/Alpha 2.1" was released in January 1996.
-Included the 1.2.13 (stable) and 1.3.32 (development) kernels.</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">March 15 1996</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 3.0.3</td>
-<td align="left">Picasso</td>
-<td align="left">
-<p>Engineers intended this release to be called "2.2" but marketing
-(i.e. Bob Young) decided it would sell better if it were called
-"3.0.3" ("3.03" in some places). Red Hat is still in business
-today, so maybe Bob was right. The release was now called
-`"Official" Red Hat LiNUX' (yes, the quotes around `Official' were
-part of the name, at least on the CD and some of the box copy; in
-other places, it was in italic typeface instead). This was to
-separate the version Red Hat sold from the versions sold by third
-parties such as Infomagic. It was also called "<span class=
-"trademark">Red Hat</span>™; Software, Inc. LiNUX", "RED HAT
-LINUX", and "Red Hat Linux" on the box.</p>
-<p>This was the first approximately concurrent multi-architecture
-release; the (then) Digital Alpha platform was supported. (The
-binary file format was still a.out for the Alpha platform because
-the ELF standard for Alpha was not yet ratified; there were no
-shared libraries on Alpha, either.)</p>
-<p>This was also the first release to feature the proprietary
-Metro-X accelerated X server as a feature of the release. It was
-also the first to include glint, the "Graphical Linux INstallation
-Tool", as a graphical front end for RPM. It also included graphical
-printer configuration.</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">July-August 1996</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 3.0.4/3.95</td>
-<td align="left">Rembrandt</td>
-<td align="left">
-<p>Beta leading up to the 4.0 release. RPM re-written in C (I think
-for this beta). First release with Pluggable Authentication Modules
-(PAM). New configuration tools being written in Python with TkInter
-instead of TCL/TK; first example was a new network configuration
-tool. Thanks to the new 2.0 kernel, this was the first release to
-use kernel modules; before this, there were 72 different kernels
-from which users had to choose to match their hardware. Now,
-hardware differences could be handled by loading different
-modules.</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">October 3 1996</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 4.0</td>
-<td align="left">Colgate</td>
-<td align="left">
-<p>Three architectures supported: x86, Alpha, and SPARC. Alpha was
-able to use the ELF file format in this release, since the standard
-was ratified and tool support implemented. This release also
-introduced our current <span class=
-"trademark">Shadowman</span>™ logo. Based on the 2.0.18
-kernel. First release to include documentation freely available in
-electronic form as well as "dead tree" format in the box. First
-release to ship the spyglass-derived "Red Baron" browser as a
-proprietary value-add.</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">February 3 1997</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 4.1</td>
-<td align="left">Vanderbilt</td>
-<td align="left">
-<p>Bug fix release. Kernel 2.0.27.</p>
-<p>InfoWorld, Best of 1996, Operating Systems.</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">May 19 1997</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 4.2</td>
-<td align="left">Biltmore</td>
-<td align="left">
-<p>Continued to use a slightly old version of libc (5.3) instead of
-newer 5.4 version because of instability and gratuitous
-incompatibility in the new version. One of the first really
-widely-criticized technical decisions between versions of software
-in Red Hat Linux, this decision was vindicated, at least for the
-distribution developers, by the flood of bug reports and
-demonstrated instability on other distributions that shipped libc
-5.4. Last release to ship the Red Baron browser, which proved very
-buggy.</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">August 27, September 16 1997</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 4.8/4.8.1/4.95</td>
-<td align="left">Thunderbird</td>
-<td align="left">
-<p>First release to use glibc 2.0. First formal beta release
-program.</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">October 7, 16 1997</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 4.9/4.9.1/4.96</td>
-<td align="left">Mustang</td>
-<td align="left">
-<p>Another set of beta releases; the massive changes introduced by
-changing C library versions made it critical that Red Hat ran a
-two-cycle beta instead of just one or even zero cycles as before.
-The experience we had of the gain in quality from this very public
-beta process was a formative experience and cemented a resolve to
-have strong beta processes for future releases.</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">December 1 1997</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 5.0</td>
-<td align="left">Hurricane</td>
-<td align="left">
-<p>Released in time for Christmas sales, Hurricane was named partly
-in recognition (it is hard to call it honor) of the hurricane that
-had swept over Red Hat a few months before and done a great deal of
-damage to the surrounding area, but essentially spared the Red Hat
-offices. First release to include <span class=
-"trademark">BRU2000-PE</span>™ backup and <span class=
-"trademark">Real Audio</span>™ client and server software as
-proprietary value-add components.</p>
-1997 InfoWorld Product of the Year.</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">June 1 1998</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 5.1</td>
-<td align="left">Manhattan</td>
-<td align="left">
-<p>Debuted the Linux Applications CD, a disk with primarily
-proprietary applications from third-party companies that worked on
-Red Hat Linux. Some pieces of GNOME were included for building a
-few applications, and a preview release of GNOME was included in a
-separate directory, though it wasn't part of the installation.
-First release to ship linuxconf as a centralized configuration
-tool. First release to include the proprietary Netscape browser.
-Last release to have a live filesystem tree on the CD; after this
-the size of the software outgrew the space for it.</p>
-PC Magazine Technical Innovation Awards: Editorial Fellows' Award
-Winner, 1998; Australian Personal Computer, Editor's Choice, and
-Just Plain Cool Award, 1998.</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">October 12 1998</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 5.2</td>
-<td align="left">Apollo</td>
-<td align="left">
-<p>Technology preview of GNOME included in a separate
-directory.</p>
-LinuxWorld, Show Favorite: Software.</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">March 17, 1999</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 5.9</td>
-<td align="left">Starbuck</td>
-<td align="left"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">April 19 1999</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 6.0</td>
-<td align="left">Hedwig</td>
-<td align="left">
-<p>glibc 2.1, egcs, 2.2 kernel, GNOME integrated.</p>
-Desktop Engineering, Readers' Choice Award, 1999; Wired for 3D,
-1999 Editor's Choice Award Winner;</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">September 6 1999</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 6.0.50</td>
-<td align="left">Lorax</td>
-<td align="left">
-<p>First beta release with graphical installer (anaconda); the
-installer was completely re-written, including implementing
-graphical mode and reimplementing text mode, in Python.</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">October 4 1999</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 6.1</td>
-<td align="left">Cartman</td>
-<td align="left">
-<p>InfoWorld, 1999 Product of the Year, Operating Systems;
-Information Week, 1999 Product of the year; Internet Week, 1999
-Best of Breed and 1999 Approved; Popular Science, 1999 Award for
-Computer and Software; International Engineering Consortium,
-Infovision 2000 Award, Private Networks; Network Magazine, 2000
-Product of the Year, Server OS.</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">February 9 2000</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 6.1.92</td>
-<td align="left">Piglet</td>
-<td align="left">
-<p>The world did not end.</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">March 27 2000</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 6.2</td>
-<td align="left">Zoot</td>
-<td align="left">
-<p>First release to ship ISO images for FTP download.</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">July 31 2000</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 6.9.5</td>
-<td align="left">Pinstripe</td>
-<td align="left"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">September 25 2000</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 7.0</td>
-<td align="left">Guinness</td>
-<td align="left">
-<p>glibc 2.2. 2.4 kernel just didn't make it in time, we decided
-that glibc version was a bigger user-space distinguisher than
-kernel version. First release that supported Red Hat Network out of
-the box.</p>
-<p>This release introduced what Red Hat called gcc 2.96 in this
-release, and later re-named gcc 2.96RH. The gcc developers who had
-been working for Cygnus Solutions when it was a separate company
-recommended that Red Hat base its work on a stabilized snapshot in
-order to get much better C++ support. Due to misunderstanding, this
-was not discussed with other gcc maintainers first, and a flame war
-erupted afterward about Red Hat using this version number, thus the
-renaming to gcc 2.69RH in future versions. Red Hat provides an
-<a href="http://www.redhat.com/advice/speaks_gcc.html"; target=
-"_top">official response</a> to this altercation.</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">January 31 2001</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 7.0.90</td>
-<td align="left">Fisher</td>
-<td align="left">
-<p>Introduced the 2.4 kernel.</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">February 21 2001</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 7.0.91</td>
-<td align="left">Wolverine</td>
-<td align="left"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">April 16 2001</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 7.1</td>
-<td align="left">Seawolf</td>
-<td align="left">
-<p>First non-"point-zero" release to include a new stable kernel
-stream. This release was considerably delayed internally, but
-barely externally due to heroics on the part of project management,
-by a major fight to resolve a very subtle data corruption issue in
-the kernel. This was also the first release to <span class=
-"emphasis"><em>simultaneously</em></span> support all supported
-languages, including CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean).</p>
-<p>This was the first release to ship with Mozilla.</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">August 2, 21 2001</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 7.1.93, 7.1.94</td>
-<td align="left">Roswell</td>
-<td align="left">
-<p>The ext3 journaling filesystem become the default filesystem,
-and the installer offers to convert ext2 filesystems to ext3 as
-part of the installation process. Grub replaces LILO as default
-boot manager.</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">October 22 2001</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 7.2</td>
-<td align="left">Enigma</td>
-<td align="left">
-<p>GNOME 1.4, KDE 2.2. This was the development basis for Red Hat
-Enterprise Linux 2.1 AS, originally marketed as Red Hat Advanced
-Server 2.1, though RHEL 2.1 AS also included some fixes that also
-ended up being included in Red Hat Linux 7.3.</p>
-<p>Network Computing, 2002 Well-Connected Awards Finalist.</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">March 22 2002</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 7.2.91</td>
-<td align="left">Skipjack</td>
-<td align="left">
-<p>Despite the fact that we always said that we did not
-pre-announce version numbers, and that there was no guarantee that
-we would always do a ".0" release, a ".1" release, and a ".2"
-release, there had been a strong pattern so far through the 4, 5,
-6, and 7 releases. We finally broke the mold when it became obvious
-that it was going to take too long to get gcc3, GTK+ 2, Python2,
-etc. all mature for a timely Red Hat Linux 8.0 release. Therefore,
-not long before this beta, we cut out the new stuff, rebuilt with
-the old compiler, and set off to chart new ".3" territory.</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">May 6 2002</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 7.3</td>
-<td align="left">Valhalla</td>
-<td align="left">
-<p>The last release to carry the proprietary Netscape browser.</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">May 6 2002</td>
-<td align="left">RHEL 2.1 AS</td>
-<td align="left">(Pensacola)</td>
-<td align="left">
-<p>Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 AS (originally launched as Red Hat
-Linux Advanced Server 2.1), Red Hat's first Enterprise offering
-(Red Hat Linux 6.2E was essentially a version of Red Hat Linux 6.2
-with different support levels, and was not separately engineered)
-was based on Red Hat Linux 7.2, but included important fixes from
-Red Hat Linux 7.3. Explicitly supported by many ISVs, it provided
-much higher support levels with smaller changes than Red Hat had
-provided in the past. Red Hat has concentrated its commercial
-support activities on this line of products.</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">July 4, 29; August 19 2002</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 7.3.29, 7.3.93, 7.3.94</td>
-<td align="left">Limbo/(null)</td>
-<td align="left">
-<p>Due to the circumstances causing this name change in the middle
-of this release cycle, all our code names now need to be approved
-by Red Hat's legal department. Tested 700MB ISO images, but they
-caused too much trouble.</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">September 30, 2002</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 8.0</td>
-<td align="left">Psyche</td>
-<td align="left">
-<p>Lots of new technology in this release. gcc 3.2, glibc 2.3
-release candidate (officially approved and requested by upstream
-maintainer!), OpenOffice.org 1.0.1, GNOME 2, KDE 3.0.3.</p>
-<p><span class="trademark">Bluecurve</span>™ was also
-introduced with the goal of providing a pleasant, unified look
-across the two desktops and many applications included in the
-release. Despite being slightly controversial to a select few,
-<span class="trademark">Bluecurve</span>™ was a smashing
-success. Several other distributions took notice and began to
-follow in the footsteps of providing a better user experience
-through cohesive cross-desktop default themes, which was the major
-rationale of the Red Hat Artwork project.</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">March 31 2003</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 9</td>
-<td align="left">Shrike</td>
-<td align="left">
-<p>Start of some new directions. In the past, Red Hat worked to
-maintain both forward and backward compatibility within a major
-version series. In the future, Red Hat will not be trying to enable
-building software on newer releases that runs on older releases,
-thus the change in versoning.</p>
-<p>First release to include NPTL (Native POSIX Thread Library)
-support, using glibc 2.3.2 and kernel 2.4.20 with NPTL support
-backported from the 2.5.x development kernels. Also, KDE 3.1 and
-GNOME 2.2.</p>
-<p>This release is the basis of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.</p></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">July 21 2003</td>
-<td align="left">RHL 9.0.93</td>
-<td align="left">Severn</td>
-<td align="left">Final Red Hat Linux beta release; this release
-started Red Hat's process of creating an open development process.</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">September 25 2003</td>
-<td align="left">FC 0.94</td>
-<td align="left">Severn</td>
-<td align="left">A week after Red Hat announced that its open
-development process was in the process of merging with the
-pre-existing Fedora Linux project to create the Fedora Project,
-the renamed second beta came out: Fedora Core 1 test 2,
-version 0.94. This was the first test release to have a
-really functional version of the exec-shield security-enhancing
-patch.
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">October 13 2003</td>
-<td align="left">FC 0.95</td>
-<td align="left">Severn</td>
-<td align="left">First test release to default to using yum
-repositories for updates.</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">October 22 2003</td>
-<td align="left">RHEL 3</td>
-<td align="left">(Taroon)</td>
-<td align="left">Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 was the first release
-Red Hat made on 7 architectures simultaneously:
-Intel X86, Intel Itanium, AMD AMD64, IBM zSeries, IBM iSeries,
-IBM pSeries, and IBM S/390.
-Lots of new features, too many to list here in total, but as a
-sample. ACLs and the 4GB/4GB split VM for x86 were new in any
-Red Hat distribution; NPTL and LVM had their first appearances
-in an Enterprise release. GCC 3.2, Linux kernel 2.4.21, glibc
-2.3.2</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">November 5 2003</td>
-<td align="left">FC 1</td>
-<td align="left">Yarrow</td>
-<td align="left">The first release of Fedora Core, and the
-last release with the 2.4 kernel.</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">January 19 2004</td>
-<td align="left">FC 0.96</td>
-<td align="left">Severn</td>
-<td align="left">Test release of Fedora Core 1 for x86-64.
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">February 12; March 29; April 27 2004</td>
-<td align="left">FC 1.90, 1.91, 1.92</td>
-<td align="left"></td>
-<td align="left">First test release to ship the 2.6 kernel, also
- the first test release with conicident x86 and x86-64 releases.
-This also marks the start of not naming the test releases.</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">March 5 2004</td>
-<td align="left">FC 1</td>
-<td align="left">Yarrow</td>
-<td align="left">Fedora Core 1 for x86-64; thanks go to Justin
-Forbes for driving this forward.</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">May 18 2004</td>
-<td align="left">FC 2</td>
-<td align="left">Tettnang</td>
-<td align="left">The second release of Fedora Core; the 2.6 kernel,
-KDE 3.2, and GNOME 2.6.</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">July 13; September 20; October 11 2004</td>
-<td align="left">FC 2.90, 2.91, 2.92</td>
-<td align="left"></td>
-<td align="left">Test releases of Fedora Core 3. Introduces udev,
-among other things.
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="left">November 8 2004</td>
-<td align="left">FC 3</td>
-<td align="left">Heidelberg</td>
-<td align="left">The third Fedora Core release. Includes GNOME 2.8 and
-KDE 3.3.</td>
-</tr>
-</tbody>
-</table>
-<p class="title"><b>Table 1. Release History</b></p>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" lang="en">
-<div class="titlepage">
-<div>
-<div>
-<h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name=
-"release-names"></a>Naming convention</h2>
-</div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p>Starting with Picasso, Red Hat has given releases of Red Hat
-Linux <span class="emphasis"><em>code names</em></span>. (These
-names are included in the <tt class=
-"filename">/etc/redhat-release</tt> file, with the version number.)
-The code names follow a strict pattern — at least, we have
-tried to make them follow a strict pattern. Name <span class=
-"emphasis"><em>n</em></span> and <span class=
-"emphasis"><em>n+1</em></span> must share an is-a (<span class=
-"emphasis"><em>not</em></span> a has-a) relationship, but
-<span class="emphasis"><em>n</em></span> and <span class=
-"emphasis"><em>n+2</em></span> must <span class=
-"emphasis"><em>not</em></span> share an is-a relationship. (Extra
-credit for finding the small mistakes we made; we are now aware
-that we have at least one case where <span class=
-"emphasis"><em>n</em></span> and <span class=
-"emphasis"><em>n+2</em></span> share an is-a relationship. The
-best-laid plans of mice and men gang aft a-gley.) Sometimes the
-name has changed from one beta release to another; more often it
-has not. There is no subtle message encoded in whether the name
-changes from one beta release to the next. Red Hat Enterprise Linux
-releases have not had code names; only release names which have
-also been used in place of code names.</p>
-<p>In the past few years, there have <span class=
-"emphasis"><em>also</em></span> been a set of <span class=
-"emphasis"><em>release names</em></span> applied to each release by
-product management; these names are per formal release, where the
-beta has the same name as the follow-on product. Red Hat has not
-formally published these names, but several of them have become
-common knowledge anyway. These names have been geographical; they
-were originally the birthplaces of various members of the product
-management team, but those ran out and we had to find other
-geographical names.</p>
-
-<p>Red Hat Enterprise Linux have only release names, no
-code names.
-Fedora Core will have only code names, not release names,
-except that we had already chosen the name "Cambridge" as a
-release name for the project that became Fedora Core 1.</p>
-
-<p>Neither set of names has a long queue of new names already
-chosen and waiting for it. Therefore, as common practice, we use C
-syntax to refer to future releases. For example, the release
-code-named "Shrike" has the release name "Gin Gin"; the next
-release we informally referred to as "Gin Gin++" until we chose the
-release name "Cambridge."</p>
-</div>
-<div class="section" lang="en">
-<div class="titlepage">
-<div>
-<div>
-<h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name=
-"thanks"></a>Thanks...</h2>
-</div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p>For several years, there have been at least two web pages
-maintaining a bit of history of Red Hat Linux, one by <a href=
-"http://smoogespace.com/documents/behind_the_names.html"; target=
-"_top">Stephen Smoogen</a> and one by <a href=
-"http://freshrpms.net/misc/redhat-releases/"; target="_top">Matthias
-Saou</a> that were valuable summaries we used while writing this
-document. Kudos to Smooge and Matthias for maintaining them!</p>
-</div>
-</div>
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