Re: any news of a new RH release?

[John Beamon <jbeamon franklinamerican com>]

John wrote:
> On Fri, 16 May 2003, John Beamon wrote:
>
>
> > This is a tiny bit of a tangent, but it's relevant for me right now, 

snip

> I firmly believe there will not be a 9.x: there is 9 and _not_ 9.0. Its
> successor, I predict, will be 10.
>
> If you want the stablility you have been accustomed to in 7.3 then you
> must pay for one of the ES offering that's not yet available, or discard
> your RH knowledge and adopt another distribution.

I know that second paragraph is meant as helpful advice, but I've heard 
it from several responders already.  "If you want the stability you have 
been accustomed to in 7.3, then you must pay...", message after message. 
   I have a boxed set of 7, released without a decimal, and I think 6 
was as well.  I don't know that the prediction of rolling 9 straight up 
to 10 will prove true, but the context of the message is nonetheless 
disturbing.  No common users are going to be interested in "Linux 14" 
and "Linux 15" coming out eight months apart, let alone admins who got 
their companies involved to ESCAPE Frequent User Fees.

I want stability.  I've had at least incremental predictability in minor 
versions since 6.  For my experience, that's 6, 6.1, 6.2, 7, 7.1, 7.2, 
and 7.3, over a considerable expanse of time in "Linux years".  That's 
gone now.  I will not be the first to bash RH for a business plan, but 
the first has long since come and gone on this list.  When the kickstart 
list at redhat.com has a thriving thread about automating SuSe and 
Debian, there's a problem.

KS is a good product, and I'll likely be rolling my next full platform 
out with KS and a heavily customized, barely recognizable RH 
installation.  I'm building .rpm's for half the stuff we use already.  I 
have all the parts here for a good package manager (don't flame that... 
it won't help the discussion), an automated installer, and a base 
installation upon which I can roll one for the company.  And my scripts 
will end with...

%post
(uname -sr && rpm -q anaconda) > /etc/redhat-release
cp /etc/redhat-release > /etc/issue

-j