On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Orlando Andico wrote: > > Red Hat shit indeed!! you should THANK Red Hat for forcibly dragging all > of you in the future!! if not for Red Hat, you'd all still be using > libc-5.3.12!!! remember when RH5 came out? everyone was moaning and > groaning. But guess what.. soon enough everyone was using glibc2 with its > excellent Unicode, thread-safety, etc. etc. > > If you want lean and mean, go back to Slackware 2.0. =) >
I have to agree with orly on this one. Redhat 5.0 (libc5 -> glibc) and Redhat 7.0 (egcs/gcc -> gcc-2.96) were a necessary step to take in order for code to be used and tested well, for it to mature. THis is the same reason why Linux released 2.4 prematurely, and it by far took the longest time a stable kernel series matured to what it is now. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
