Submitted 10-Jul-00 by Benjamin Sher:
> Dear friends:
>
> I was just reading an article on ZDNet's site called "Only Two Linux
> Companies Really Matter" (i.e. Red Hat and Caldera). One of the talkback
> comments includes the following line:
>
> "Mandrake last I checked shipped with a broken C compiler that causes
> malformed kernel code..."
>
> I am just an ordinary user, but that sentence, if true, sounds pretty
> ominous.
>
> Could someone please comment on a) whether it's true, how serious is
> this b) what versions does this affect (LM 7.0 or LM 7.1), c) if true,
> has this been corrected?
Totally untrue. Think about this: if it produced malformed kernel
code, there would be no working kernel for Mandrake because the kernel
is built on a Mandrake box.
The only important kernel issue that affected any kind of
compatibility was kernel 2.2.13-7mdk (shipped with 6.1) which used a
kernel option that made it incompatible with many binary only drivers
(notably OSS which released a Mandrake-specific version).
This was not a case of a broken compiler, but a little used
configuration option. I have been using Mandrake since 6.0 and always
run custom kernels.
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