Redhat 9.0 coming out April 7th

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 16:25:31 EST
bscott at ntisys.com said:

>On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, at 3:59pm, pll at lanminds.com wrote:
>> Was 8.0 that bad that only another .0 release could fix it?
>
>  Again: Red Hat's long-standing policy on version numbers is that the major
>number gets bumped when they break binary compatibility.  This typically
>means a new version of GCC or the GNU C library has been introduced (or
>both).  Problems (or lack thereof) in previous releases have no direct
>influence on this.

What their stated policy is and what they actually do are two 
different things :)

I seem to remember a 7.0->7.1 bump with an incompatible compiler 
problem.  I'd classify that as an incompatible binary ;)
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