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Unfortunately, they started experimenting with the consumer distro, and leaving the "enterprise" versions to be the stable platform.
The least foolish Red Hat users install only the x.3 versions. x.0 always sucks. And they get a little better with each release until they finally work out many of the bugs for x.3.
Given that they are going to a new release model that doesn't have minor numbers (hence, RedHat 9 instead of 9.0) all releases are x.0 equivalent. They haven't had a minor release since 7.3. I would also agree that they are using the consumer distro for experimentation. Prime examples of that are NPTL and GCC 2.96 (you know.. they somwhere between 2.95 and 3.0 that RH put together). Of course, who knows how it's going to be now that it's going to be more of a 'project' than a real product.. -- trey