I have just started running Mandrake here after being a Red Hat user for a
couple of years. Most people I know haven't heard of Mandrake, but
everyone knows who Red Hat is. Honestly, it feels like Red Hat to me!
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Jean-Michel Dault wrote:
>
> >
> > Don't you think it's about time that people stop calling us "a better
> > RedHat than RedHat"?
> >
> > Development of Mandrake is not tied to the development of RedHat. Those
> > are two different distributions, but using the same packaging method.
> >
> > Releasing 6.1 before RedHat proves the point! ;-)
> >
> > Jean-Michel Dault
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >
> > On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Ron Stodden wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 23:42:15 +1000
> > > From: Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > To: Gael Duval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: [expert] Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux-Mandrake 6.1pre available for download and
>tests
> > >
> > > Gael,
> > >
> > > Are you planning to issue a 6.1 BEFORE Red Hat issues its 6.1? Won't
> > > that lead to endless future confusion?
> > >
> > > If your planned 6.1 is still based on Red Hat's 6.0, you would be MUCH
> > > better advised to call it 6.02, or 6.0.2mdk or just Mandrake 2, surely?
>
> Well Let me explain it seeing as some people were not paying attention.
>
> Here's a quick run thru of the versions:
>
> 5.2 = Redhat + kde + all the other stuff (sane, and maxwell to name a few)
>
> 5.3 = Linux Mandrake 5.2 + fixes + updates
>
> 6.0 = Linux Mandrake 5.3 + fixes + Merge with Redhats core changes +
> updates + Another merge to make sure we're compatable + more fixes + more
>updates
>
> The last release that was truely "based" on Redhat's was 5.3, releases
> after that have been developed on an radicly different development scheme.
> While retaining virtualy 100% compatablility. Redhat's (apparent)
> development scheme, follows a basic principal (as do all development
> projects), of Major and Minor version nameing. Go find you a mirror that
> arhives Redhat's releases and you will clearly see (generaly) how they
> work. Lets use the 5.X releases for example. Once 4.2 was deamed stable
> (ok probably way before that) they came up with an idea to radicly change
> the distribution, there by createing a new development tree 5.X (probably
> soomething like 5.0pre, or something i wasnt paying attention). This
> 5.1pre goes thru debuging proceedures and becomes "Redhat 5.0". 5.1
> contains improvments fixes and updates to 5.0. 5.2 contains improvments
> fixes and updates to 5.1. Somebody else has another radical idea to chage
> the distribution, lets add gnome to the default and throw in kde (yes i
> know it changed more than that but lets keep it simple). 6.0pre comes
> along to run the debugging gauntlet, and we repeat.
>
> Now that all said, we need not worry about a 7.X compatablility untill
> it comes along. 6.1 is being released because we think it's ready. We will
> worry about the next major release when it comes along, by then who knows
> Maybe it will be Redhat worrying about Mandrakesoft compatability. And
> when we're done we'll get SuSE and Caldara worrying about compatability
> (a little bit more) aswell.
>
> > > --
> > > Ron Stodden
> > > Using Virtual Access
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> --
> MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
> --Axalon
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