Pardon my nit-picking.... > * gcc upgraded to 3.0 a long time ago, but most distros continued to > supply 2.9.5/2.9.6 as their default. April's distros will fell safe > enough to finally upgrade.
I think maybe SuSE will move GCC 3.0 (maybe also debian - I don't follow debian so much), but RedHat and Mandrake will definately not use GCC 3.0 - both of the distributions are announcing once in 18 months about a major new release. Now I know for sure that Red Hat is going with RH 8.0 with GCC 3.1 - which is pretty typical move at Red Hat side - always use the bleeding egde with the 0 versions. My bet is that Mandrake will follow Red Hat with the GCC compiler issue (just like they followed the Red Hat's gcc 2.96) > There are other packages which are not "key components" of Linux, but > many of them are going to be majorly upgraded too (such as PostgreSQL). > > Tzafrir mentioned Mandrake too; I have to say that this time, contrary > to previous times, Mandrake is going to be the real looser: Its beta is > already out, and unless a miracle happens, its next release will be > obsolete even before it is announced: old KDE, old GNOME, old Apache, > etc. Umm, I'm affraid I don't agree with you about this - they (mandrake) simply try have a very solid distribution before they move into bleeding edge - so they'll have all the major new versions of application in Mandrake 9 - 6 months after Redhat will release 8.0 - so they'll benefit from maturity of those applications major versions. > Of course, some people prefer mature and tested packages, rather than > major upgrades; But those people also don't upgrade frequently, so the > new Mandrake will not be good for anybody: Neither the "Early Adopters" > (who will prefer RH8/SuSE8), nor people who prefer to stay with their > old and good distro (who are not expected to upgrade at all). It WILL be good for people who wants to upgrade to the latest stable - Mandrake 8.2 is a just updated version of Mandrake 8.1 plus some new stuff for easier management. Don't forget that for Red Hat - it's much more then X86 for them now - they have a collaboration with Compaq to release Alpha versions of Redhat - and the GCC 3.1 is much better then GCC 2.95/2.96/3.0. They're also have the S/390 distribution (same issue as Alpha), embedded processors versions etc.. Mandrake got what? X86 and maybe PowerPC - but nothing more... Hetz ================================================================= 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]
