>>>>> "Jonnas" == project manager <Jonnas> writes:
Jonnas> darshan wrote:
>> Hello! I was looking out for RedHat 9 distro. And I came
>> across Linux 9. Are they one and the same or different
>> distros?
Jonnas> I'm pretty sure this is some stupid marketing idiot that
Jonnas> wrote "Linux 9". Sorry it's late in the night and I have
Jonnas> little tollerence for the misfits at the moment. These
Jonnas> people should all be packed and sent to Microsoft to paint
Jonnas> colors on paper. Leave us alone.
Jonnas> There is no such thing as Linux 9. The only place you
Jonnas> will see "Linux" take a number is it's kernel version,
Jonnas> which when I last saw was 2.4.21 (but one also reads about
Jonnas> 2.5.x, 2.6.x which are soon-to-be-released-experimental
Jonnas> kernels). Of course distros like Redhat, SuSE, Debian etc
Jonnas> each have their own fancy way of assigning version
Jonnas> numbers. So what you saw is Redhat's version 9.
Many people would still call it Linux 9 or another name just to avoid
using the Redhat name. Redhat states very clearly that use of its
name is a trademark violation, and you cannot (e.g.) sell CDs and call
them Redhat Linux.
Regards,
-- Raju
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