On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 17:51, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > At 03:17 3/20/2004, you wrote: > >On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 04:32, Homer wrote: > > > On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 15:59, Steve Bergman wrote: > > > Windows5.x???? > > > > >Windows 2000 is Windows 5.0 > >Windows XP is Windows 5.1 > > > >2000 and XP are just branding thingies. Like Linux 2.6 and Redhat 9?? > > Not the same thing. The Linux kernel is the central component of all Linux > operating systems and distributions, and the latest stable version is > currently 2.6. Red Hat Linux 9, Fedora Core 1, and others are different > distributions which package the Linux kernel and *thousands* of other > packages in order to create a fully-functional operating system. RHL-9 used > the 2.4-series kernel, but you can put a 2.6 kernel into RHL-9 and it > makes no real difference. > > OK. I was trying to illustrate something anyway.
