I'm not an anti .0 guy, and I'm still unauthoritatively new to Linux in general, and I dunno whether ppl will change their minds about 8.1 now that it is called 9.0, but I've had troubles with 8.1 itself. I realize it's a beta, but generally I have fixed a few major compatibility problems (other than nVidia) with sound cards, network cards, and motherboards by just installing a 2.4.18 kernel. I think the new-kernel-with-new-version theory holds some water.
8.0 works perfectly every time on everything, tho. ;-) Personally, I kinda wonder if the version change is at least a little bit affected by everyone else having higher numbers. Remember IE 4, IE 5, IE 5.5? Of course, Netscape had 4.0, 4.01, 4.02, 4.5, 4.76,etc ... up to 4.8 in about the same span of time. Then they jumped straight to 6. What happened to 5? Of course, I have no problem if this actually has anything to do with the versioning scheme. (Hmm, Evolution doesn't like the word "versioning"...it's probably right.) In Linux, a new version is just another well-tested package of various versions of software with some fixes, doodads, and proprietary software added. Maybe people are still reeling from MS days, when higher major version numbers always meant worse software. 95a, scary 95b, much better 98, very scary 98SE, much better (though still scary) Millennium, [expletive deleted] That could explain the fear surrounding new versions of software. -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
