New Red Hat Linux Beta: Severn

JofCoRe writes "Just got a message from the redhat watch list today, announcing the availability of a new beta, called "Severn". Some snippets from the announcement: What's its development status? "It doesn't seem too horrendously in flux. Difficult at this moment to make a specific diagnosis." Among other things, SEVERN has: a new graphical boot, GCC 3.3, an updated 2.4.21 kernel, updated Evolution and Mozilla, More information about the beta can be found at rhl.redhat.com. And the Release notes are found here. Looks like they have it currently labeled as v9.0.93." Update: 07/21 15:11 GMT by H : It's 3.2.3 GCC, not 3.3, as I had above.

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[avalys]

What happened to their versioning system? I thought they were moving towards purely integer-based releases. Shouldn't this be RedHat 10 Beta?

term8or

[term8or]

In other news, Bill Gates rebuts rumours of a Red Hat release seven. "Windows is already at release 2003, and we will soon release 2005 (planned for 2007). This shows how much more mature Windows is compared to our Linux alternatives." A spokesman from HP has declined to make any comment, and has denied the rumour that HP will release a new version to compete. "The rumours of HP-UX 11.ie (Internet Edition) are a complete fabrication"