On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Jean-Michel Dault wrote:
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> Don't you think it's about time that people stop calling us "a better
> RedHat than RedHat"?
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> Development of Mandrake is not tied to the development of RedHat. Those
> are two different distributions, but using the same packaging method.
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> Releasing 6.1 before RedHat proves the point! ;-)
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> Jean-Michel Dault
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> On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Ron Stodden wrote:
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> > Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 23:42:15 +1000
> > From: Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > To: Gael Duval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
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> > Subject: [expert] Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux-Mandrake 6.1pre available for download and
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> > Gael,
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> > Are you planning to issue a 6.1 BEFORE Red Hat issues its 6.1? Won't
> > that lead to endless future confusion?
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> > 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.
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