> -----Original Message-----
> From: H S Rai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 1:42 PM
> Today at 12:58pm +0530 Himanshu Singh wrote:
> 
> >   > From: H S Rai
> >   > I  heard  that  odd  version  (like  6.1,  6.3,  7.1,  7.3)  are
> >   > experimental,  while  even releases  (like  6.2,  7.0, 7.2)  are
> >   > stable one.
> >
> >   ... i guess u r talking about Redhat's releases.
> 
> You and all other are right in guessing this :-)
> 
> I  heard this  comment  w.r.t  RedHat7.3, as  that  person avoided  to
> upgrade from 7.2 to 7.3 due to his that fear.
> 
> >   the rule is for the kernel version.
> 
> It mean,  no distribution  has ever (should)  come with  odd versioned
> kernel.
> 
> >   nothing to do with distro's version numbering
> 
> >From you and  from other's reply it appears that  the 
> statement is not
> true and more or less may one's own notion.
> 
> But I found that Redhat 7.1 has  "gcc 2.96" which is never released by
> gnu.org, has  "octave"s instable  (development) version. I  also found
> RedHat  6.2 very  stable. This made  me to  believe the  "statement in
> discussion" to be true.
> 
> -- 
> H.S.Rai
> 

AFAIK, the odd/even fact is for the kernel version numbering. 
If the kernel number is 2.X, the kernel is stable if X is even and
unstable/experimental if X is odd. 
ever seen Redhat or any other Distro shipping kernel 2.3, or 2.1???

Gurus...Correct me here if i'm wrong

-himanshu



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