New Releases

Stephen Smoogen smoogen at lanl.gov
Tue Sep 23 23:36:00 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 17:25, Gerald Henriksen wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:08:15 -0400, you wrote:
> 
> >Bear with this newbie a moment... If I read you correctly, the open
> >source projects you speak of are additional software and users want the
> >newest software on the older operating systems.  
> 
> They are projects like Python, whose community got very upset when Red
> Hat stuck with Python 1.5 for the entire Red Hat 7.* series (.0 -> .3,

I think very upset is an understatement. The number of Red Hat are
nazi's, Microsoft, trying to fork python for their own interests, etc
was quite a bit.


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