[ale] Re: Fedora Beta

Dow Hurst dhurst at kennesaw.edu
Fri Sep 26 19:11:07 EDT 2003


What is it compiled with gcc 3.2 or 2.95?  Just checking since Java 
1.4.2 and Moz 1.4 require that for the binary downloads to work together.
Dow


Chris Ricker wrote:

>On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
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>>Since there appears to be interest here in the Fedora Beta, any early 
>>adopters want to risk a quick comment on it? (Bandwidth limited minds 
>>would like to know...)
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>Let's see, quick comment: "Like Red Hat Linux 9, only faster" ;-)
>
>Seriously, not too much different from RHL 9 other than the usual updates of 
>software versions included. The boot process now can be graphical (kinda 
>like newish SuSE, but without the ugly kernel hacks and therefore instead
>implemented by actually starting X during boot). Yum's now included, and 
>up2date can also access yum / apt-capable archives. Other than that, the 
>biggest change is that the tool chain incorporates exec_shield (RH's 
>anti-stack-smashing stuff)
>
>Of course, the really big difference is the opening up of the development 
>somewhat.
>
>later,
>chris
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