The race to GCC 3

[pri.blu at iadonisi.to (Paul Iadonisi)]

On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 17:27, Derek D. Martin wrote:

[snip]

> As memory serves, many people said the 6.0 beta was excellent, but the
> 6.0 release was initially atrocious...

  Let me rephrase.  I have it on good authority that the 'final' release
*is* good.  But inevitably, many people will dislike the direction Red
Hat is going.  And, of course, there will be bugs discovered.  What
matters is expeditious updates to fix real problems.  Recent (at a
minimum) history shows Red Hat to pretty good at releasing updates in a
timely fashion.  Time will tell that carries forward with 8.0 and
onward.
  One word of caution that Red Hat will inevitably (and, IMNSHO,
unjustifiably) get a lot flak for.  Binary only modules *will* have
problems if they are not recompiled with gcc 3.x.  (This most
*definitely* includes the Lucent winmodem drivers.) The new modutils
will pick up on this and refuse to load the module.  For those who
distribute binary only modules, the responsibility falls squarely on
them, not Red Hat, or any other Linux distributor, to make things work
with the new kernel/compiler.  I'll dig up what Alan Cox posted to some
of the public Red Hat mailing lists, if anyone is interested, but I
won't have access to email again until Sunday, so I won't get to it
until then.

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