Star Red Hat Linux 9 - World's First Look at Shrike
Linked by Niall C. Brady on Tue 25th Mar 2003 16:51 UTC
Red Hat I installed Red Hat Linux 9 (Shrike) to see what has changed between it and the previous major version of Red Hat (8.0). The article features some installation screenshots and of course some post-install screenshots showing Bluecurve in Gnome and KDE (more shots here), user experience and discussion of whether you should upgrade or not.
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by Anonymous on Tue 25th Mar 2003 17:09 UTC

The first thing you will note is that Red Hat has decided to move away from the x.x numbering of their products, now they've moved directly from Red Hat 8.0 to Red Hat Linux 9 ending the 7.1,7.2,7.3,8.0 releases of times past, sure there was a 8.1 beta called Phoebe but that was all it was, a beta.

Is this certain? In the past they just used major version increases when there was binary incompatibilities, and minor ones, if there wasn't. So it could be that they added some kernel/glibc/gcc patch, that made it binary incompatible with 8.0. Doesn't mean that there won't be 9.1,9.2,..