On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:50:36PM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote:
Who said that there will be less emphasis on stability? Red Hat Linux hasn't become a semi-annual printing of Rawhide...
No. But in the past, the x.0 releases have *never* reached the same stability level as the later x.2 releases. By scrapping the point releases and putting more emphasis on "bring new features sooner", one can expect that stability will suffer.
You might expect that. I, however, expect a more steady evolution, rather than huge leaps every couple of years. Most of the problems brought on by a .0 release was the result of wide spread changes. The point releases had a very small number of changes, by comparison, and so improved stability of the platform.
The current plan is somewhere in the middle. I don't expect to see such sweeping changes in the distribution anymore, so I think it's reasonable to hope for much better releases than ever happened before.
It's really too early to say a whole lot about Shrike, but it really feels like an excellent release. It's all that I'd hoped for in Red Hat Linux, and that's not impared by the fact that it's 9 instead of 8.1 (including the changes made that would not have been put in to an 8.1 release).
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