[ale] Various Rambling Linux Thoughts/Difficulties

[Eric Z. Ayers]

This is a pretty good article, and so is the discussion earlier this
week on slashdot regarding the GCC 2.96 issue (the issue is, the GCC
steering committee did not release gcc 2.96 and its binaries aren't
compatible with those generated by 2.95.2 or forthcoming 3.0).  

I've been using GCC for a long time. I've been a redhat user for not
quite as long.  An a redhat fan for less time than that.  But I would
now classify myself as a redhat fan.

GCC has always had problems when you upgrade or try to link with
objects created by other compilers.  If redhat was supposed to hold up 
their distribution waiting for gcc 3.0, then someone is on drugs. 
I've been waiting for gcc 3.0 for over 4 years.  My hats are off to
the folks behind egcs, but they have delayed a 'stable' maintained
branch release as well.  I've been using gcc 2.95.2 and 2.95.1
and while some problems were fixed, others were broken. And gdb never
seems to be quite done either - of course they are adding important
new features to it as well.

Redhat has always pushed the releases of their component software a
little too fast for my comfort in production environments.  However,
by the time they release the .2 minor rev, most of the kinks seem to
be worked out. I've gone from 4.2 to 5.2 to 6.2 on some of our
in-house production systems.  



Douglas Knudsen writes:
 > ...a note from Florida...RH is taking some heat.
 > 
 > >I am now glad I didn't install redhat 7. I'll wait till 7.2.
 > >
 > >Juan
 > >
 > >
 > >  http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-10-09-005-21-NW-CY-RH
 > >
 > 
 > PostScript: Do not mistake this as begging for a large distro thread!
 > 
 > Cheers!
 > 
 > -------
 > Douglas Knudsen
 > Alltel Information Services
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 > Hey! These views are mine!!!
 > 
 > 
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