Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:38:50 EST From: Tm4528@aol.com To: tom@vilot.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD Message-ID: <12c.5493593e.2f0d9c4a@aol.com>
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In a message dated 1/5/05 1:20:53 PM Eastern Standard Time, tom@vilot.com writes: >>Linux also doesnt do a major release until its arguably better than the >>previous version. Another lesson that the FreeBSD camp could well learn from. >You do >>your tweaking in the confines of your labs, not at the expense of your >>customer base.. > >I'm sorry ... I missed something. What exactly was the "major" arguably >"better" difference between RedHat 8 and RedHat 9? I got the distinct >impression RedHat was playing the version number game with SuSE and >Mandrake. > >Or how about RedHat 7.2 to 7.3? Yes, you've "missed" the fact that kernels and distributions are independent of one-another in linux. "Redhat" is just a distribution and has little to do with what particular kernel version you are using.
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