Irwan Hadi wrote:
> At 08:46 PM 7/28/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >Well someone apparently saw the top of the boot screen for the install
> >and jumped to the conclusion that 6.9 was out. Which it is not. That
> >is just the boot disk from rawhide. I'm sure that when it is out for
> >testing we will be the first to know. I had to stop the rumor mill
> >before it got out of hand. Sorry.
>
> BTW it seems almost every Linux distributions nowadays try to jump to at
> least version 7, although the jump sometimes is too high like slackware,
> from slackware 4.0 to slackware 7.0 (now 7.1)
>
> the same also with SuSE from 6.4 to 7.0
> redhat also (6.2 to 7.0)
> Which distributions is the trigger of this behaviour ? mandrake ?
Moving from a 6.x to 7.0 isn't an unusual jump. Slackware went through
some weird numbering, IIRC.
IMO, RedHat was the "instigator". As the most well-known Linux
distribution, people started referring to RedHat 6.0 as "Linux 6.0" out of
either ignorance or laziness.
Some other distributions played "catch up" to avoid the bad image in the
minds of the ignorant and lazy of having a distribution that was outdated.
RH's not culpable, in that they've moved from N.x to (N+1).0 with
regularity. It's the other distributions that are bumping up their
revision numbers so they can appear (again, to the lazy and ignorant)
to be more current than "Linux 6.2".
-W-
Klaatu barada nikto.
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