RE: [Sheflug] New User

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] barriebremner.com>]

>>>>> "Will" == Will Newton <will [at] misconception.org.uk> writes:

    Will> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Barrie Bremner wrote:
    >> Dunno, I've had pretty good mileage from RH, which I've been
    >> running since RH6.0, although all this gcc-2.96 rubbish did
    >> make me a little twitchy for a while (although I note that
    >> Debian 'Woody' has gcc snapshots, *as well as* gcc-2.95).

    Will> Like RedHat then. RH ships with both compilers, it just
    Will> seems people would rather rant and rave rather than actually
    Will> look what is in the distro...

Well, RH7.0 shipped with "kgcc" which is egcs v.whatever, however,
RH7.1 doesn't seem to have a similar system, I guess because the
kernel can be successfully compiled on gcc-2.96-RH.

I'm not technical enough to argue the point either way - and it does
seem to work, whichever way you look at it.

    >> Mandrake has definitely seen an improvement in ratings over the
    >> past few releases - might be interesting to see how things
    >> progress.

    Will> A bit flashy for me. It's like the Linux Boy Racer
    Will> edition. :)

Kinda combined with the ELC idea on style - some of the images are a
bit too soft and cuddly - I much prefer the Tux with horns >:-)

Baz.

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