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Re: Beta Testers are Required
- To: "Nadav Har'El" <nyh(at-nospam)math.technion.ac.il>, "Eli Marmor" <marmor(at-nospam)elmar.co.il>
- Subject: Re: Beta Testers are Required
- From: "Hetz B.H" <hetz-home(at-nospam)cobol2java.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 23:37:06 +0200
- Cc: "linux ILUG" <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>, "Ohad Eilon" <ohade(at-nospam)mainsoft.com>
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- References: <3A79A2D8.403F35DA@elmar.co.il> <20010201231325.B19080@leeor.math.technion.ac.il>
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The official word from Redhat is for developers - to use Redhat 6.2 and not
7.0
I know that I'm using 7.0 + all the latest fixes and patches, but there are
still compiler problems (take a look for example at avifile-0.6 which has
horrible problems with RH 7 and not RH 6.2)..
The Beta version of Redhat 7.1 is out. I have been testing it for a week or
so here at home (until my machine died due to a problem in my motherboard).
It's still got problems with GCC (I have GCC-2.96-71) which are known to
Redhat people and to the GCC commitee, and Redhat is taking care of that..
So, as I said from Redhat "mouth": Developers and production servers and
workstation - use RH 6.2. Everyone else that doesn't mind some problems -
can go with 7.0...
Hetz
----- Original Message -----
From: Nadav Har'El <nyh@math.technion.ac.il>
To: Eli Marmor <marmor@elmar.co.il>
Cc: linux ILUG <linux-il@linux.org.il>; Ohad Eilon <ohade@mainsoft.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 11:13 PM
Subject: Re: Beta Testers are Required
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2001, Eli Marmor wrote about "Beta Testers are Required":
> >...
> > The system requirements for testing VMW are:
> >
> > 1. A Linux machine - RedHat 6.2 (other releases are not currently
supported)
> >...
>
> I'm curious why people still use Redhat 6.2. I've been using Redhat 7.0
> since a couple of days after its release about half a year ago, and it is
a
> very good, and very stable release (of course, make sure to apply all the
> updates released since, but that also applies to version 6.2, or any
version
> for that matter). Redhat 7.0 together with its "Powertools" disk contain
so
> much useful stuff that wasn't available in 6.2, that I'm amazed why people
> stick to 6.2, or worse - install 6.2 on new systems (just the other day
> somebody on this list asked for a 6.2 CD to install on a new system!).
>
> Even the most notorious feature of Redhat 7.0, its unofficial gcc version,
> isn't a problem for 99.9% of the users. Even developers (like myself) will
> probably never have a problem. Only people who want to release binaries
and/or
> libraries may ever face the incompatibility problem.
>
>
> --
> Nadav Har'El | Thursday, Feb 1 2001, 9 Shevat
5761
> nyh@math.technion.ac.il
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