Quoting Oleg Goldshmidt, from the post of Thu, 17 Oct: > It seems a recurring motive for quite a few posters here (and > elsewhere). I have not tried RH 8.0, so I should shut up, but just to > remind those who have forgotten, it has long been the Common Wisdom > not to try *.0 releases for anything critical.
please don't generalize. this is true for .0 versions of software from big companies that release products at timed intervals to please the shareholders and investors (and the marketoids). in the Free world, Apache declares a 2.0 when it's an almost-complete rewrite and indeed breaks compatabilities (and it is very odd for RHL to install it by default with no options. Debian will undoubtedly install apache and apache2 as two separate packages for over a year before making the full switch). Also consider Debian Woody 3.0 as a system that was patiantly put together for almost 2 years and was not released before it was considered stable by the maintainers. I recommend it to anyone who doesn't mind giving up desktop glitziness for technical stability and configuration flexibility. if you're that hot about cutting-edge desktop and trickery, Got for Gentoo 1.4 :) -- Enjoying the strange days Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal.
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