On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 10:50:30PM -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > ./RedHat/RPMS/gcc-3.1-7.i386.rpm > > ./RedHat/RPMS/gcc-c++-3.1-7.i386.rpm > > ./RedHat/RPMS/gcc-g77-3.1-7.i386.rpm > > ./RedHat/RPMS/gcc-gnat-3.1-7.i386.rpm > > ./RedHat/RPMS/gcc-java-3.1-7.i386.rpm > > ./RedHat/RPMS/gcc-objc-3.1-7.i386.rpm > > good riddance to the 'gcc-2.96' lunacy. One of the things I *really* don't > like about RH is their high-handedness about some things... like using their > own compiler and making a lot of people work to become compatible with > *them*, rather than the other way around. I've never had a problem with it, except for mplayer bitching to no end about it, after removing the specific anti-redhat code from configure it worked absolutely fine. > (all the patches they apply to the > kernel is another one). A lot of distributions, including mandrake, debian, suse, etc. add patches to the kernel to fix bugs here and there (these eventually make it into the mainstream kernel. > > any way you cut it, RedHat is still a commercial entity... on the upside, > this means they can pay a bunch of people to do quality control. on the > downside, they don't have the customer's interests at heart, as much as > something like the Debian Project does. (and it shows. this is why RH won't > ship apt4rpm anytime soon... it competes with their revenue model). I think they have plenty of customer interest at heart, considering the number of people using it they're obviously doing something right. They've got a very nice installer, things like kudzu to relieve a lot of the pain involved in installing new hardware, and all the GUI tools needed to configure the system (Like SuSE or Mandrake) maybe Debian has these things too, I haven't bothered to use a GUI setup under debian lately. Perhaps I'll try it in vmware tonight. > > Carl Soderstrom. > -- > Network Engineer > Real-Time Enterprises > www.real-time.com -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203