On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 16:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip]
> (Insert snide remark about Red Hat's history of selective license > compliance here.) Hey, it's a big job. I wouldn't call it selective. It just takes time. Take a look at the release notes and you'll see that pine is now deprecated due to license issues. On the topic of 'why 9.0 and 8.1', I could have told you many moons ago, as soon as NPTL started showing up, that this release was most likely to be a major rev bump. Reason? Unlike some distributions *cough* Slackware *cough*, there is a method to Red Hat's versioning madness that's no secret: Binary compatibility. NPTL broke *lots* of things and many apps that run on 9.0 won't run on 8.0 (and vice-versa) without tweaking. A bump in the major number is consistent with Red Hat's policy in this case. NPTL = Native Posix Thread Library -- -Paul Iadonisi Senior System Administrator Red Hat Certified Engineer / Local Linux Lobbyist Ever see a penguin fly? -- Try Linux. GPL all the way: Sell services, don't lease secrets _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
