On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 12:44:06PM -0800, Daevid Vincent wrote: > Well, I do know that it's incredibly arrogant and misleading to jump from > v8.0 to v9.0 without any intermediate steps. NOBODY in the software world > does that without some serious serious feature additions. RH9 will be > nothing more than some normal updates. Xfree 4.3, a (still broken) Apache > 2.0/PHP, a slightly newer KDE/Gnome, and what else? NOBODY? Surely you're not serious. It happens all the time. Microsoft started Windows NT at 3.1, jumped to 3.5, then to 4.0 and then to 2000. Version jumps are common in this industry. They're just marketing numbers. How can you possibly state that it will be "nothing more than some normal updates" and then ask what else? If you don't know what else, how do you know it's nothing more than some normal updates? Are you guessing again, like you probably guessed that this would be called 8.1? BTW, I have no more info on this numbering scheme than you do - I'm just saying that it's Red Hat's decision and they know more about marketing than I do. They also have more to gain or lose. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
