Redhat 9.0 coming out April 7th

Mark Komarinski mkomarinski at wayga.org
Mon Mar 24 20:46:56 EST 2003


On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 08:19:08PM -0500, Paul Iadonisi wrote:
>   NPTL broke *lots* of things and many apps that run on 9.0 won't run on
> 8.0 (and vice-versa) without tweaking.  A bump in the major number is
> consistent with Red Hat's policy in this case.
> 
> NPTL = Native Posix Thread Library

I'm just fuming over the fact that my lead time for a book about Red
Hat 9.0 has dropped from 6-12 months to 30 days.

But what (in layman's/non-coder) terms is the big deal with NPTL?

-Mark
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