When is 8.1 coming out?
Edward Wilson
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> When is 8.1 coming out?
Release is set for April, last I heard
Michael Kelly
wrote:
>On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:15:00 +0000, Edward Wilson wrote:
>
>> When is 8.1 coming out?
>Release is set for April, last I heard
That wouldn't be April 1st would it? ;)
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Eric Bursley
jump from 8.0 to 9.0, but they did. They will make it clear in the release
notes next month.
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"Michael Kelly" <mkell...@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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Michael George
> The next Red Hat release will be Red Hat 9. Don't ask me why they opted to
> jump from 8.0 to 9.0, but they did. They will make it clear in the release
> notes next month.
Really? That's odd... That leaves me in a quandry now. I generally will not
upgrade to a x.0 release because they are often quirky. So I can either break
my "x.0 -- we won't go" policy or stick with 7.2.
I really want GNOME2 and KDE3 though...
*sigh*
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David Kastrup
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 02:20:39 GMT, Eric Bursley <ebur...@swbell.net> wrote:
> > The next Red Hat release will be Red Hat 9. Don't ask me why they
> > opted to jump from 8.0 to 9.0, but they did. They will make it
> > clear in the release notes next month.
>
> Really? That's odd... That leaves me in a quandry now. I
> generally will not upgrade to a x.0 release because they are often
> quirky. So I can either break my "x.0 -- we won't go" policy or
> stick with 7.2.
>
> I really want GNOME2 and KDE3 though...
The reason is pretty obvious: they use major jumps whenever a switch
of the main library API is involved.
One should avoid mixing binaries from systems with a different major
number, because then large dynamical libraries for both flavors will
get pulled into memory.
When you switch major release numbers, you should for that reason
recompile everything you compiled yourself (typically the stuff in
/usr/local).
Things will still work if you don't (we are not talking MS Windows
here), but will take up more performance and memory than optimal.
With the switch to gcc-3.2, we have a new C++ API, which for example
affects the whole of KDE. I should not be surprised if that is
sufficient to warrant an x.0 release.
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Michael George
>
> The reason is pretty obvious: they use major jumps whenever a switch
> of the main library API is involved.
>
> One should avoid mixing binaries from systems with a different major
> number, because then large dynamical libraries for both flavors will
> get pulled into memory.
>
> When you switch major release numbers, you should for that reason
> recompile everything you compiled yourself (typically the stuff in
> /usr/local).
>
> Things will still work if you don't (we are not talking MS Windows
> here), but will take up more performance and memory than optimal.
>
> With the switch to gcc-3.2, we have a new C++ API, which for example
> affects the whole of KDE. I should not be surprised if that is
> sufficient to warrant an x.0 release.
Good points. Thanks for the info. Usually, though, if they have an impending
x.0 release coming up, they will stall it a bit to get a few major changes
into it rather than go from x.0 to (x+1).0. But then again, this might be the
first time that things have come together as they have...
Rex Dieter
> The next Red Hat release will be Red Hat 9. Don't ask me why they opted
> to
> jump from 8.0 to 9.0, but they did. They will make it clear in the
> release notes next month.
I seriously doubt that redhat will be breaking binary compatibility to
warrant a jump to 9.0 instead of 8.1 (based on their current beta, which is
ASAIK, compatible with 8.0). Any mention of 9.0 at this point is pure
speculation...
-- Rex
gort
This is the reason that java plugins will not work on my locally compiled
mozilla-1.3 with gcc-3.2, the java plugin was compiled with 2.9x by Sun.
Hopefully Sun will release an updated (read gcc-3.2 compiled) plugin soon.
Rex Dieter
>
> This is the reason that java plugins will not work on my locally compiled
> mozilla-1.3 with gcc-3.2, the java plugin was compiled with 2.9x by Sun.
>
> Hopefully Sun will release an updated (read gcc-3.2 compiled) plugin soon.
Or you can use the gcc-3.2 compiled java from www.blackdown.org.
-- Rex
Jacques Rodary
Perhaps because 8.0 was so awfull, specially with locale and gnome-desktop.
Rex Dieter
> Rex Dieter wrote:
>> I seriously doubt that redhat will be breaking binary compatibility to
>> warrant a jump to 9.0 instead of 8.1 (based on their current beta, which
...
> Perhaps because 8.0 was so awfull, specially with locale and
> gnome-desktop.
By that same argument, redhat should have skipped 6.1 and 7.1 as well... (-:
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Jacques Rodary
> Jacques Rodary wrote:
>
>
>>Rex Dieter wrote:
>
>
>
>>>I seriously doubt that redhat will be breaking binary compatibility to
>>>warrant a jump to 9.0 instead of 8.1 (based on their current beta, which
>
> ...
>
>>Perhaps because 8.0 was so awfull, specially with locale and
>>gnome-desktop.
>
>
> By that same argument, redhat should have skipped 6.1 and 7.1 as well... (-:
>
R G Crook
with 8.0 !