On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 15:58, Matthew John Darnell wrote: > > I have a machine here that won't start the 9.0 graphical setup. 8.0 works > fine as does Windoze 2000, trying Mandrake 9.1. I guess RH 9.1 will fix > some video issues.
Please provide more details about your video hardware and motherboard. > > I wonder if they rushed 9.0 to keep on the same numbering generation as > Mandrake. 9.0 seemed to come out quickly after 8.0. Didn't the 7.X go as > high as 7.2? > > -Matt Please do not speculate, because most speculation is wrong. http://www.redhat.com/software/ Red Hat has chosen to split their products into two lines, consumer and enterprise. The consumer line that has and always will be free has accelerated in development because they no longer need to maintain binary compatibility with older distributions. They have made indications that they no longer will need to release point releases. This means that R&D can happen at a much faster pace, and every 6 months you can get the newest, coolest stuff with the free version of Red Hat. In order to reduce their overhead and focus more engineer time on R&D, they only guarantee to release updates for the consumer Linux distribution up to a year after its release. The enterprise line takes the best of the more experimental technology and every 1.5 years releases a new product aimed for the enterprise/business market where 6 month turnaround is too quick. With a much longer product QA cycle their enterprise linux distributions are meant to be used for years without upgrading. For technologists like me that is a boring prospect, but consistency is important for business. They guarantee 5 years of support for their enterprise Linux distributions. Their enterprise Linux distributions are not free, instead with a cost and different support options attached to it. Unlike SuSE however Red Hat's Enterprise distributions are still 100% Open Source, so nothing stops you from downloading all the source code, compiling and installing it yourself. You just don't get their support services. Warren
