[KLUG Members] Release date (fwd)

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>>For the anxious....
>>A 7.3 directory has appeared at
>>ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/
>>... but nothing in it yet. 
>>So you can settle up on those 7.3 vs 8.0 wagers.
>It's funny.  For 7.0, RedHat switched to GCC 2.96 from 2.95.3 on the
>lastest Rawhide.  But for 7.3, they switched from GCC 3.1, which they
>were already using on Rawhide for at least a month, back to 2.96/3.0x.

Yes, but rawhide is, and always has been, use at your own risk.  RedHat
"promises" their distro is stable, they decry all such statements about rawhide
packages.  So it isn't really that surprising.

>You can never tell what they are going to do.  But I'm glad to see
>this.  In fact, I've gone one step further.  I've advocated that they
>should release a .3 around the same time as a new .0.  E.g., RedHat
>releases about every 6 months, so make the time time between a .3 and a
>.0 just a couple of months.

Nah,  just pin 8.0 to the release of GNOME 2.0.1 (note the .1 :).

Lets all chant: Bonobo! Bonobo! Bonobo! .......

When I scheduled my "Data Access with Linux" presentation way back I was hoping
(very very optimistically) that GNOME 2 would be out by then.  Now I'll be
covering the current, soon to be old, gnome-db stuff (not that it isn't still
really cool).  But the GDA/GNOME-Db stuff cooking in the GNOMEv2 pot is "Wow!"
material,  very cool.  Database applications that one can just slap together, 
and XML to the very root and bone.  By comparison, M$-OLE/VB will look like a
shower curtain that just escaped from four years in a punk commune.