I just joined the list so please pardon me if this question has
been asked before. Will there be any journalling filesystem
included in 7.0?
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 01:34:10PM -0400, Jason Costomiris wrote:
> 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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