The race to GCC 3

[David Kramer]

On Friday 27 September 2002 03:09 pm, ron.peterson at yellowbank.com wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 01:39:41PM -0400, Mark J. Dulcey wrote:
> > >Really? in Debian (testing tree), since Friday the 13th.
> > I was only counting released versions, not betas or test versions.
>
> <facetious>
>
> Sometimes, one distribution's 'testing' is another distribution's
> 'released'...
>
> </facetious>

No need to be facetious, "that's a feature".  Some people want the latest and 
greatest cutting edge, and some people want rock-solid proven stable.  It 
doesn't make a distribution better or worse, just "for you" or "not for you".

PS: what I meant by starting frfom e2fsck was reformatting the hard drives and 
reinstalling everything from scratch.  I thought going to a radically new 
compiler version would preclude running an upgrade.  I almost always start 
with a fresh install, as I've seen way too many upgrades break (I mean on all 
OSes, not just Linux or RH Linux).  In fact, Tuesday I'm picking up a few 
extra bucks by repairing one.

Having just installed 7.3 a few weeks ago though, I would be hesitant to start 
from scratch again.

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