Hi Mike, I've read that paragraph before and was never fully satisfied with it. Besides some bug fixes there isn't much difference between Red Hat 8.0 and Red Hat 9. Sure you can say the kernel is "newer" but anyone can download the latest kernel patch and compile it on their own machine. Those kernels are mostly the same anyway, at least for "normal" users who don't hack kernel code. I was hoping that someone would provide me with some more facts about the differences between these two versions. I like the movement by Red Hat to try to incorporate the best of the two worlds when it comes to KDE and Gnome desktop environments. Its a great idea and long overdue in the linux world. Another good thing is the use of decent looking icons on the desktop. Its fantastic and extremely important that they still give the end user the choice of using KDE, Gnome, Windowmaker or the hybrid Bluecurve Desktop environments. Just my 2 cents :-) ~~Nick > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 21 Jun 2003 13:18:49 -0400, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > > > Why did Red Hat decide to go from version 8.0 to 9 anyway? > > http://www.redhat.com/advice/speaks_9.html > > > This doesn't match their earlier versioning system (7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3). > > Oh, please, not that topic again. The 7.x series started with > > Red Hat Linux 7 > > (no dot zero!) at least on the box and the main web page, but some > people from Red Hat didn't care much and referred to it as version > "7.0" in documentation or directory names. That's why searching > www.redhat.com for "7.0" returns many results. > > - -- > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+9J3z0iMVcrivHFQRAg+oAJwIxgl7ZbOl3zw4Kd4bvSMRCxpKKgCdGRtT > riYrqC/PN2DjOUG1WEaCl2c= > =C+D0 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
