On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 20:51:40 -0600, Curtis wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Ron, for what it's worth RH 7.2 is *really* old, and gcc-2.96 was kind > of a half-baked cvs snapshot that RedHat grabbed for various > [debatable] reasons. It had a lot of bugs and caused a lot of grief
..staying with this old un-updated RH-7.2 might be _the_ way to help Microsoft prove "Wintendo is safer than Linux!". ;-) > for a lot of people. If upgrading is any kind of option, I would ..try a live cd, Knoppix.net for details, docs etc, if you like it, just install it off the cd to harddisk. After that, updates are a breeze, " apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade ; apt-get autoclean " instead of those mile long "rpm -Uvh *.rpm " trashed guess command lines. > highly recommend upgrading to something newer. There are a lot of > good options these days, Fedora, Debian, RedHat, Suse, Mandrake, etc. > etc. etc. Personally, I've been fiddling with Fedora Core 2/3 lately > and have been pretty happy with it. I've managed to find a couple > annoyances, but generally it's a *lot* (and I can't emphasize the word > *lot* enough) better than RH 7.2/7.3. ..I'm told Fedora Core 1 Legacy (FC1L) is better than Fedora Core 2 (FC2), how does Fedora Core 3 compare to those? > I still run Debian for my servers, but for a desktop machine, Fedora > Core is pretty good. I realize that doesn't help your immediate > problem (which I don't have an answer for), but if there is any > possible way for you to upgrade, I think you will be a *lot* happier. ..I use Debian for everything, and hook people with DamnSmallLinux.org and clusterKnoppix, if you're a Linux newbie, you wanna go the Knoppix route to Debian, if you're a seasoned Red Hat guy, you wanna go the FC1L route until Curtis convinces me FC3 is better than FC2 and FC1L. ..Fedore also has the netselect and apt-get magic now, but only a fraction of the software Debian has available. Myself, I went from Red Hat to Debian before Fedora and Knoppix rose out of the dust, and spent the last 1.5 year or so unlearning the RedHat-isms. ;-) > Also, don't forget that you need decent 3d hardware acceleration to > run FG which for most people probably means an nvidia or ati card that > was built this century. I don't know how well modern nvidia/ati cards > can be made to work with the really old kernel you must have if you > are running RH 7.2. ..this is on an old box, Ron? Fedora Core 2 is _heavy_ for boxes of RH-7.2 vintage, IMWEWFC2. (I spent a week getting a lan test box working good enough for delivery before the client told me "But Debian is okay with me." Duh! ;-) ) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
