rampant speculation

[dogbert at clue4all.net (Brian J. Conway)]

> What's Red Hat going to do for their next distro?  Haven't they kind
> of put themselves in a difficult position, by releasing 7.0 with gcc
> 2.96?  If they push something out the door to contain the new kernel,
> which compiler are they going to use?  If they use 2.95, they'll be
> binary incompatible with their own most recent release.  If they use
> 2.96, they'll be pulling the same blunder they did last time.

Given the 7.1 beta as an indication, they're using "GCC 2.96-RH,"
whatever that means.  I assume they're planning on sticking with that
until gcc 3.0 in RH8.

Brian J. Conway
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