Hi,
using rh8. I read somewhere rh9 may require recompiling of some programs that work ok with rh8 and some apparently wont work.

Can you direct me to a site that might explain this new 'theading' stuff and the pitfalls of moving from rh8 to rh9?

thanks

The only pitfall I know of is the fact that the Glibc libraries were updated and broke things like wine for a while (It has been fixed). Other than that there is little difference. RH 9 comes with the 2.4.28 kernel and things like KDE 3.1 (nice). Worth the upgrade IMHO.

There is a pitfall in moving to RH9. In fact RH9 is the pitfall. Use Mandrake and your woes will be gone! Gone I tell you! Gone!

mandrake is crap.

it has "m" just like microsoft.

All immature distibution jokes aside, RedHat 9 is worth the upgrade (especially if you have newer hardware, such as video cards, that you want support for). RedHat 9 fixes many of RedHat 8's bugs but, of course, comes with many of its own - not all of which have been addressed yet.

Riley has a point. If you are going to go through all the trouble of upgrading your distro, you may simply want to switch to a different distro. While RedHat is an excellent distro for newbies to learn on, most gurus I know prefer other distros. Consider visiting http://www.distrowatch.com .