The first thing you will note is that Red Hat has decided to move away from the x.x numbering of their products, now they've moved directly from Red Hat 8.0 to Red Hat Linux 9 ending the 7.1,7.2,7.3,8.0 releases of times past, sure there was a 8.1 beta called Phoebe but that was all it was, a beta.

The CD's available for download are now 6 in total, up one from the last major release, however most of us will get by with just downloading the first 3 CDs only, in order to install and setup Red Hat Linux 9 (the last three cd's are source cd's).