It looks like Red Hat 9 is going to break a lot of things. See:
http://news.com.com/2100-1016-994074.html
They included the new threading system, called the Native Posix
Threading Library, But the change to NPTL means some older software
won't work, including 3D graphics support for Nvidia and ATI graphics
cards and some versions of Sun Microsystems' software for running Java
programs, according to Red Hat.
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 19:00, Scott wrote:
> I got the same email and no, no one has heard anything prior to this
> email. I dont know what 9.0 will have in it, but after the V8.0 fiasco (I
> downgraded my systems back to 7.3), I think I will wait a long time before
> trying it. As a matter of fact, as I type this, Debian is installing on
> my laptop (it used to be RH).
>
> scott
>
>
>
> On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Lynn David Newton wrote:
>
> >
> > I got mail from Red Hat today indicating version 9 is
> > coming up in about a week -- the first I'd heard of it
> > (because I don't keep track).
> >
> > Has anyone heard about what's happening in this
> > version? I'm surprised they're going straight from 8.0
> > to 9.0.
> >
> > I got stung by 8.0 worse than by any other dot-zero
> > release of any software I've ever loaded. Although
> > there are definitely some nice things in 8.0, I also
> > unquestionably lost functionality -- things I depended
> > on. After some time fussing with it all, I finally gave
> > up, and have limped along without those features ever
> > since.
> >
> > I like to keep up with the latest, and realize there is
> > some risk involved in going to a dot-zero release,
> > which I'm normally willing to accept, come what may.
> > But after the last RH release, I've understandably got
> > my guard up.
> >
> > Meanwhile, I've gone over the wall ... to my left sits
> > my new (about three weeks) iMac, which I use as an
> > auxiliary machine (for my family, but I use it for
> > various tasks during the day). Very sweet.
> >
> >
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