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Re: redhat 6.2 was (Re: Beta Testers are Required)



You know guys - there are other distros out there - some of them even
"RedHat compatible" (well,sort of.. :-).
I've beed a Mandrake user since 6.1, and while it's not the brightest star
in the bunch, it does offer you recent software, without the gcc problem,
and almost no x.0 bugs.

Oded

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"We all want for love to come along, but we pose restrictions as to how it
comes along."
 -- Ally McBeal

----- Original Message -----
From: "mulix" <mulix@actcom.co.il>
To: "Nadav Har'El" <nyh@math.technion.ac.il>
Cc: "Eli Marmor" <marmor@elmar.co.il>; "linux ILUG" <linux-il@linux.org.il>;
"Ohad Eilon" <ohade@mainsoft.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 23:30
Subject: redhat 6.2 was (Re: Beta Testers are Required)


> On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote:
>
> > 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!).
>
> Usually i steer away from distro flame wars like the plague, but in this
> case i feel i must respond. The someone was me, i assume, and it was on
> lin-club, not linux-il, but never mind that.
>
> The reason i'm sticking with redhat 6.2, insteading of switching to 7.0 or
> the almost released 7.1 is simple- gcc and kgcc. Redhat 7.0 (as you know)
> wes released with gcc 2.96, a NOT official branch of the gcc tree, which
> while improving c++ support, broke kernel compilations. Now, maybe having
> a semi-functional compiler on the system is acceptable to you, but it's
> not to me. Add to that redhat's rather unfriendly manner towards the
> community on this issue (imho) and lousy history with *.0 releases, and
> you know why i was looking for a 6.2 install cd.
>
> Not to say that i think redhat is a bad distro, not at all. As a matter of
> fact, unless i switch to debian or *bsd before that as my distro of
> choice, once redhat 7.2 is out i will probably install it. especially if
> it ships with gcc 3.0, which should be out by then.
>
> > --
> > Nadav Har'El                      |      Thursday, Feb 1 2001, 9 Shevat
5761
> > nyh@math.technion.ac.il
|-----------------------------------------
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> --
> mulix
> http://www.advogato.com/person/mulix
>
> linux/reboot.h: #define LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC1 0xfee1dead
>
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