> -----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 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
