Mark Post wrote:
On 12/3/2008 at 9:41 AM, Eric Sammons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Red Hat 7.1 and 7.2 were not "commercial" product offerings from Red Hat.
Red Hat introduced its commercial offering with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2.1,
I'm sure the people at Red Hat who were there at the time would be very
surprised to hear that. Red Hat was generating revenue from Red Hat Linux long
before Red Hat Advanced Server (not Enterprise Linux) 2.1 was released.
Before RHEL there was Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 3.1.
Basically, RHLAS was RHL 7.2 packaged as a "commercial" offering with
support. Before that, RH was offering support for RHL (how else to make
some money?), but RHAS as the beginning of the differentiation between
free to obtain and not-free. Previously one could choose between free
downloads and packaged options (including downloaded with support).
RHLAS was subsequently renamed to RHEL.
It's RHL 7.2 and 7.1 that I was recalling, for IBM mainframes.
When RH released RHL 7.3, there was no corresponding upgrade of RHLAS
which remained based off RHL 7.2.
In the RHL series, 7.0 was the last RHL with a 2.2 kernel, RHL 7.1 the
first with 2.4.
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John
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