Fwd: Red Hat Linux 9 -- Get it Early

[Jon Hall]

>Ordinarily yes, but I heard from a reliable source that this is a
>Sun-like marketing move.

In this case I think it is a very professional-like "marketing move".

I recently got a blast from Codeweavers (makers of Crossover) which warned
me not to update to the latest glibc libraries from Red Hat since they would
break binary compatability with their product.  The patches the Red Hat were
putting out would have forced an upgrade of glibc from 2.2.93 to 2.3, breaking
WINE and other things.

My guess is that Red Hat is upgrading to glibc in V9.0, which might break
binary compatability in a few things.

Upgrading to the next major number is a well-known method of signaling
binary compatability change.  Apparently Red Hat is using that signal.

Hopefully they will also allow people to link to the older library if needed.

md