Hello, everybody I've been using Linux for a while, installing several Slackware distributions from 2.1 to 2.3. I learned about Debian only recently and since I need to reinstall my Linux anyway I considering switching. There are several significant advantages that I personally consider very important for me in Debian vs other distributions: no need to reinstall everything from scratch when a new distribution comes out, a group of maintainers vs a single person, available bug list, dedicated mailing lists, etc. However, considering Linux's transition to ELF I have the following question: when/if Debian is changing to ELF, what version of GCC is ELF system going to use (Slackware beta uses 2.6.3 because of Fortran support), and most importantly will the "no need to reinstall from scratch" be applicable to ELF change?
Gleb
