kfir lavi wrote: > i will check this option, it seams good, because freashmeat has all the > packages i need.
This is not always a good idea. Since most distro's come in frequent (to keep the stock price up) new releases, you can end up with problems. If you wait the six months, and install the next SuSE or RedHat release, you get everything brought up together. If you do it piece by peice, you end up hoping that the latest RPM from whateveer will work on your system and not rquire 20 unrelated upgrades to install. Sometimes you want to install things on their own such as GCC. For example, their was 2.9.5 which was the standard release for almost 2 years. Except that RedHat include 2.9.6 in RH 7.0. In order to compile anything you had to get the second edition "respin" or RH7 and then put new GCC RPM's on top of it. :-( Now that GCC 3.2.1 is out do you install it? IMHO absolutely, with trepidation, but abosultely. It's the first working (at least on Intel) version of what was started with GCC 2.9.6. My concerns is that unless you are already running a GCC 3.2 distro, such as SuSE 8.1 or RH 8.0, you have to recompile the kernel with the new compiler if you want to compile any loadable modules, or keep the old compiler (and libraries) around to compile those modules. This is worse on my PPC linux system at home which is running SuSE 7.1, with all availble 7.1 upgrades, GCC 3.2.1 (installed from source), and kernel 2.4.20. To use ALSA or MOL (Mac On Linux) you need to compile the modules each time you change the kernel so everything had to be compiled completely with GCC 3.2.1 to get them to work. I now have SuSE 7.3, but I'm afraid to upgrade to it except by compiling each source RPM for fear of being caught with all sorts of dependencies. It's not so bad a problem as SuSE probably will never issue an 8.x for PPC, so I am on my own anyway. But those of you with Intel boxen can just wait the six months and get it all done at once. Though SuSE is a bit problematic over RedHat in this case as you cannot download the distro, you have to buy it. You can do an FTP install from their site or mirror it locally (anyone want to download 5 gig?), but the FTP install is NOT an FTP upgrade. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson MobilEye Vision Technologies Ltd, R.M.P.E House, 10 Hartom St. Har Hotzvim Jerusalem, 91450 Israel Tel: +972-2-5417-356 Cell: +972-55-667-090 Do sysadmins count networked sheep? ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
