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Subject: Fw: difference of redhat 6.2 and 7.0
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----- Original Message -----
From: "xander" <xwiggen@students.cs.uu.nl>
To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 6:50 AM
Subject: Re: difference of redhat 6.2 and 7.0


|   >
|   > Hi,
|   >    In addition to the kernel headers issue you mention, RedHat also
|   > APPEARS to have shipped gcc 2.96 with Redhat 7.0.  The 2.96 version of
GCC
|   > was NOT meant for public consumption, and was supposed to be some kind
of
|   > beta which was only to be used/tested by Redhat themselves.  As a result
|   > of RedHat releasing 2.96, GNU decided that there new version of GCC
(when
|   > it is ready to be released) will be called 2.97.  I have not
specifically
|   > asked RedHat nor GNU about this first hand, so if anyone would like to
|   > correct me please feel free...  The bottom line is that some things with
|   > GCC seem to be broken.  I am not sure whether there is a patch yet or
some
|   > other meccanism to role back to GCC 2.96.
|   >
|   >    There is also some bug in Redhat 7.0 which causes a crash every two
|   > weeks or so - some kind of memory leak.  I am not sure exactly where the
|   > memory leak is - I think there is already an RPM update for it though.
|
| RedHat 7.0 is a bit flaky indeed. 2.2.x kernel sources don't compile
| properly. Better wait till 7.1 is out and run 6.2 in the meantime.
|
| Regards,
| xander van wiggen
|
|
|
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