Red Hat 9 To Be Released March 31

Garfunkel writes "Looks like Red Hat is breaking tradition and skipping 8.1 and 8.2 and jumping directly to 9.0 RHN subscribers get it a week ahead on March 31st. Available to the rest the world a week later (April 7)." The website refers to the upcoming release simply as "9" -- which doesn't rule out future point releases, but could it be?

Comments

Great it is a non .x version

[Anonymous Coward]

This can only mean on thing!
It will be so full of bugs that you can't use it!

The GCCv96 stuff really pissed me off in 8, apache wouldn't compile. It made me lose all faith in RedHat.

I so don't care about it

[semanticgap]

I can't say I'm thrilled with Red Hat's distribution - it's hardly innovative, arcane, their RPM system leaves a lot to be desired and the hole company IMHO has nothing but the exploitation of Linux popularity going for it. Somehow they've managed to become synonymous with Linux (someone already mentioned Linux 9) which I think only does the community a disservice while RH's owners are getting richer. Slackware or Debian are far superior to RH, though I've become so fed up with Linux hype lately that I primarily use FreeBSD.

So I don't know if it's just me, but this is hardly front-page news.

Stupid RH H8RZ

[glrotate]

Lechter deserves a hater award. RH is releasing an updated product and it makes him angry.