Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 7th Apr 2003 17:10 UTC
Original OSNews Interviews Today, Red Hat Linux 9 has been "officially" released to the masses via the FTP servers, and we host here a mini-interview with Matt Wilson, Manager, Base Operating Systems at Red Hat, Inc.
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by Maynard on Mon 7th Apr 2003 21:34 UTC

redhat has to make sure it can anticipate the problems its clients might have. Jumping on to the latest and greatest may become somewhat problematic. They ratehr release what they know and provide the rest as updates. That is why Redhat 8.0 still had Mozilla 1.0 tree and now the 1.2 tree, completely jumping the 1.1 release. 1.2.1 was the one available when they started beta testing and they stick to that. Its good for the customers in that they get tried and tested products, but the geeks always want the latest an greatest. But then again, they are the ones who can install their own stuff.