Re: [Cooker] Reasons FOR Mandrake...

[R.I.P. Deaddog]

I think you should check out previous threads about this experimental
gcc/glibc issue. Now they are stable enough to be used.

Maybe LWN (Linux Weekly News) was right ---- yes, redhat has a habit of
pushing out experimental stuff and that makes everybody crying with anger,
but it's also because of redhat's push that makes experimental softwares
mature more quickly.

Abel Cheung


On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Digital Wokan wrote:

> Alan Olsen wrote:
> > Another reason to use Mandrake is that programs actually compile under it.
> > (I have been more than a bit frustrated with the odd collection of things
> > that will not compile correctly on Redhat 7.0.)
> > Mandrake does not tend to use experimental versions of GCC or GLIBC.
>
> Then I guess you should be looking for another distro.  Because almost
> immediately after 7.2 came out of beta testing, Cooker was bumped up to
> a development version of GCC.  Apparently the Red Hat (7.0) bandwagon
> was still big enough to hold Mandrake.
>