Hi,

> That's what I thought, until I, just to be safe, sent my browser to
> http://www.redhat.com. And lo and behold, what do I see there?
>
>       "Today: Get Red Hat Linux 9 early"
>
> Linking to the following page:
>
>       http://www.redhat.com/mktg/rh9iso/

Try this: http://www.redhat.com/index2.html

> Which says Red Hat 9 will be available on March 31, 2003 for "Red Hat
> Network" subscribers, and generally available in April 7, 2003.
>
> Weird. Very weird. Can anybody confirm or deny, or venture guess why the
> sudden version number jump?

The jump was due to the incompatibilities rolled - like the famous glibc which 
is NOT backward compatible, etc...

So Red Hat was basically forced to jump to 9 instead of 8.1, since "8.1" is 
not compatible with 8.0, so they moved to 9.0

Thanks,
Hetz

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