Re: [Cooker] Reasons FOR Mandrake...

[Alan Olsen]

On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Ed Wilts wrote:

> On Friday 06 April 2001 15:56, 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.
> 
> But that's the plan for Mandrake 8.0 - gcc 2.9x *is* an experiemental version 
> of gcc.  A darn good compiler, but experimental nonetheless.

But Redhat used a version that was not to be used for ANY production work.
(The GCC people were pretty torked too.)  There are versionf of the 2.9x
tree that are considered "stable" and there are other parts that are not.
They chose from the wrong tree.

One of the reasons you have to patch as soon as you install Redhat 7.0.

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