John Seago john.seago@btinternet.com writes:
system as the kernel numbering, is 7.1 a development version of 7?
With RedHat, no, as far as I know.
If so would I be better off getting hold of issue seven, as some applications seem to crash, (this is most likely due to my blundering than any inherent fault).
I've heard the criticism of RedHat that they have done a "if it compiles, ship it" strategy with 7.1 rather a lot recently. Can any of our RedHat users confirm or deny that?
On Tue, 17 Jul, 2001 at 23:40 +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
I've heard the criticism of RedHat that they have done a "if it compiles, ship it" strategy with 7.1 rather a lot recently. Can any of our RedHat users confirm or deny that?
That's certainly been true of all the RedHat X.0 releases -- it's commonly understood that '0' on the end of a version number from RedHat stands for "wait for the next point release" ;-)
Thank goodness Debian's release process is as rigourous as it is. Shame it takes them 2 years to punt one out, though...
Andrew.
MJ Ray wrote:
John Seago john.seago@btinternet.com writes:
system as the kernel numbering, is 7.1 a development version of 7?
With RedHat, no, as far as I know.
nope, the numbers are just that.. the devel version of redhat is called rawhide, and lives on several mirror archives if you want to have aplay with it...
If so would I be better off getting hold of issue seven, as some applications seem to crash, (this is most likely due to my blundering than any inherent fault).
I've heard the criticism of RedHat that they have done a "if it compiles, ship it" strategy with 7.1 rather a lot recently. Can any of our RedHat users confirm or deny that?
I can deny that, While I am sure that there are bugs with various pieces of RedHat that have shipped, there are also a comparable number of bug and security releases with other distro's. I have been using redhat for about 5 years now, and in my experience they do a 6 month ship cycle, and three months after the last release they freeze versions and work on getting the bugs out (unless a security alert is made on a package).. imho they don';t just ship it if it compiles...I've used all versions since 3.0.3, and 7.1 is definatly more stable/more features than any other release (ok, I acknowledge the gcc argument, but i'm not going to get drawn into it again ;)...
hth Sz
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