Red Hat Linux 9.0 announced

Red Hat Linux 9.0 announced

Posted Mar 25, 2003 16:22 UTC (Tue) by ksmathers (guest, #2353)
In reply to: Red Hat Linux 9.0 announced by bkw1a
Parent article: Red Hat Linux 9 announced

> If binary compatability is broken it's a major version number bump.

Personally, that's the main reason I'm concerned about this. I maintain a lot of Red Hat computers (over 100), using a standard configuration. Ever since version 4.2, I've been developing a new configuration whenever a new *.2 version comes out, then installing it on new machines and upgrading old ones. I've got a nightly update scheme that lets me easily push out updates, but when a major upgrade comes along, it means actually laying hands on each of the machines and spending at least an hour with it. (The hardware varies widely, from desktop machines with various sound/video/whatever cards to several small clusters of headless machines.)

I believe it is for product differentiation. Redhat wants enterprises to buy their Enterprise Linux offering, which addresses exactly those concerns. Their regular Redhat Linux is moving to a cutting edge product to be more competitive with Mandrake, and more attractive to the hobbyist market.

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