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. -- Stephen John Smoogen smoogen@xxxxxxxx Los Alamos National Labrador CCN-5 Sched 5/40 PH: 4-0645 (note new #) Ta-03 SM-1498 MailStop B255 DP 10S Los Alamos, NM 87545 -- So shines a good deed in a weary world. = Willy Wonka --
