On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 05:35:52PM -0600, Lee Howard wrote:
: Why the major number change, then? Why not call it RedHat 6.3?
: Calling it RedHat 7.0 seems to lead one to believe that there's a change
: significant enough to warrant the major number progression. What is that
: change, then? XFree86 v4 ?
We've been over this before.. RH 7.0 is a new major version because it
has/does lots of things that RH 6.x does not have/do. For example:
XFree86 4.0.1
gcc 2.96 - a biggie in the incompatability area!
USB backport support in the initscripts
LPRng
autofs 4.x support
bash2 as the standard /bin/bash
db 3.0
All the fixings to make ready for kernel 2.4
Better java support (through gcj)
More/better i18n support
Support for wireless networking
I just got all that by simply looking at the RPMs in the redhat-7.0beta
directory structure on a mirror site.
You can't offer XFree 4.x as an "upgrade" to RH 6.x, without making lots
of fairly serious mods to the way the RH X subsystem works, which has
been done for RH 7.0.
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jcostom {at} jasons {dot} org | http://www.jasons.org/
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