On Tuesday 25 March 2003 01:27 pm, Andres Montiel wrote:
> 9? I thought they usually went through .1, .2, etc. first?
Maybe Red Hat's feeling a bit afraid of Mandrake gaining on the desktop, so
they decided to match the release number to emphasize "competitive
comparisons" (like the Intel vs. AMD megahertz rating controversy).
It may also be due to a newbie's psychological mindset. People who are new to
Linux "tend" to think that distros with lesser release numbers are inferior
to distros with higher version numbers. For example, newbies tend to unjustly
think that Mandrake 9.0 is more advanced than Red Hat 8.0 or SUSE 8.0.
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mikol
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