Because I have gotten 6 emails from people asking me where I am getting these rumours from... it is clear I was a little too dry in the humour.
The RFC's are all April 1st ones.. The last one is a combination of a Dilbert joke http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-06-24/ and a truism (if someone defines an upgrade as being wipe and reinstall then any OS can upgrade another one. My apologies for pulling people's legs when it is not April 1st. On 17 May 2014 12:07, Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On 16 May 2014 18:09, ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com> wrote: > >> >>> >> >> Any rumors on if the upgrade tool will be ready to go with 7? >> >> > The following are confirmed rumours[1]. > > * EL-7 will be launcing a new age of compliance to the RFC with RFC 1149 > and RFC 2549 fully supported [2]. > * Current work is to make sure it is compliant with RFC 2550 but this is > listed as a tech preview. > * Also in tech preview, kernel is aware and will respond to RFC3514. > * New desktop options have been worked out that will promise 4K on serial > terminal. [3] > * Upgrades from all other operating systems are now supported. [4] > > > [1] I can confirm that these are rumours. > [2] Hardware is up to the owner to put into place. > [3] Promise has not been evaluated to be truthful or not. > [4] Upgrade is defined as wipe and reinstall. A nickel is given if > hardware is not x86_64 compatible in the first place. > > -- > Stephen J Smoogen. > -- Stephen J Smoogen.
