Red Hat 8.0?

[mikeshn]

I heard a rumor probably that redhat.com released Red Hat 8.0 beta (limbo). Is it true?


Thanks

 

[stash]

'tis true

 

[cleverhandle]

Anyone know if they're following Mandrake's suit and building using gcc 3.x?

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: cleverhandle
Anyone know if they're following Mandrake's suit and building using gcc 3.x?

There was an article linked from LinuxToday that said they are using gcc 3.1
And finally dropped Netscape 4.x in favor of Mozilla

 

[Louie1961a]

and let me say that it rocks..much more responsive. Gnome 2.0 is freakin fast!!

 

[SUOrangeman]

The new Mandrake 9.0 Beta 1 supposedly has KDE 3 and gnome2, along with a 2.4.19pre kernel. I coulda sworn that RedHat limbo was gonna tun into 7.4 and not 8.0. But I don't follow RH.

-SUO

 

[manly]

SUOrangeman,

Red Hat is pretty reliable/sensible when it comes to their versioning scheme. They reserve .0 releases for major architectural changes (cynics would say for their worst releases).

Anyway, Red Hat 8.0 will be the first GCC 3.2 hosted release, assuming GCC standardizes on 3.2.x 🙂. That alone is a monster change. GNOME2 will also be a substantial new addition, along with the standard version updates we're all accustomed to.

FWIW, each of the big three, RH, Mandrake and SuSE are prepping their first GCC 3.x based releases. This is quite a huge effort, and most likely will result in a longer release cycle (I almost assure you the first one to market will not have the best release).