Red Hat's Bluecurve (was: Red Hat 8.0 is 'official')

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 20:52:46 EDT
jkinz at rcn.com said:

>I have always, by accident rather then by dint of planning, moved from 
>N.1 or N.2 to N+1.1 so I have yet to experience a RH N.0 release.

I do this by design.  My rule of thumb is *always* avoid an X.0 
release of *anything* (well, for production anyway.  "playing" or 
systems used for educational purposes obviously preclude this rule 
and allow you to do stupid things like use .0 or < 0.0 releases :)

>Are all of RH N.0 release typically accompanied by more problems then 
>the N.1 or N.2 releases ?

Tradionally, yes.  5.0 I believe was the release where they switched 
to the new glibc, I don't remember the problem with 6.0, but 7.0 was 
the compiler debacle, 8.0 seems to be the desktop debacle.  I don't 
remember what the 2.0, 3.0, or 4.0 problems were.  But, suffice it to 
say that:

	- a RH X.0 release usually introduces a significant number of
	  "enhancements" and new features, as well as major problems
	- an X.1 release fixes a good portion of those bugs, but not
	  usually enough to consider the system stable enough for use
	  as a server
	- an X.2 release is usually the flagship release of the X 
	  release
	- and an X.3 release is pretty much unheard of, and IMO,
	  indicative of just how much was wrong with the entire 7.x 
	  series :)

>Is RH duplicating the problems automobile manufacturers have whenever
>they bring out a new car model?  The more they change the more that 
>is broken?

What company doesnt' do this?

>I'm wondering because I was just considering a move from 7.2 to
>8.0 when I started hearing about 8.0 probs and it seemed to a higher
>level of severity than I've heard before.

Personally, I'd wait until at least 8.1, if not 8.2.  .1 is likely to 
be out within a couple months.

>As a rule of thumb - don't dot oh ?

I certainly don't :)
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Paul
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