On Sat, 7 Sep 2002 01:36, you wrote: > In many instances, new releases are more marketing opportunities than real > upgrades, as long as you've kept up with all the updates.
Generally speaking, most of the significant differences between Red Hat releases are on the desktop. Major upgrades of KDE and GNOME occur frequently whereas in the years I've been using RHL the significant kernel changes have been from 2.0 to 2.2 and then 2.2 to 2.4. glibc and gcc similarly don't usully change a lot from release to release. RH has a policy of binaries-compatibilty within a major release, so programs compiled on any 7.x will generally run on any other (up to date) 7.x, and until 7.3 RH had had three .x releases in each y. release, at two per year. I have no inside information; it would surprise me not at all if the next L/390 release from RH is 8.1. That will give the rest of us time to iron out the wrinkles on our less-critical systems. 8.0 seems certain to have pretty-much the same kernel as 7.3. Probably the biggest difference is the move to gcc 3.x. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
