[philip.j.fry]

Originally Posted by Tristan

Hmmm.... the three big distros at the time, Red Hat, Suse and Mandrake, all moved to 8.0 roughly at the same time,

There's no truth in the rumour that bigger is better

so I think it means "any Linux distribution running a 2.4 kernel". I don't really see how this is relevant though -- surely it's only the Firefox version that's important?

Depends on how it is implemented I suppose, if it's working as a native application that interfaces with FF rather than as a FF extension then minimum system requirements will apply. Though usually it is the GlibC version rather than Kernel version. At a guess they've probably just gone for some number that corresponds with the major versions like you say and is meaningful to the average home user.