And now the GCC steering commitee has issued a statement that pretty much reprimands Redhat for using the gcc-2.96 snapshot. I think they are just in a hurry for new features instead of tested features. That really is too bad. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy at veldy.net> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 9:04 PM Subject: Re: [TCLUG:22317] SUSE 7.0 is available now! > I ran across a couple myself. It didn't even detect my tulip based card :) > > Tom Veldhouse > veldy at veldy.net > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Clay Fandre" <clay at fandre.com> > To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 8:54 PM > Subject: Re: [TCLUG:22317] SUSE 7.0 is available now! > > > > "Thomas T. Veldhouse" wrote: > > > > > > There have been all sorts of bugs reported about it. They even out did > > > Microsoft on this one :) > > > > Are you going by what was posted on /.? From what I hear the bug list is > > not as bad as it sounded. The insider info from RH (yes, I do have my > > sources) is that there are only 250 list bugs right now in the database, > > and half of those probably aren't even real bugs. > > > > > > > > Upgrades ended up formatting hard drives - glibc wasn't even remotely > > > compatible to many apps. Many things simply broke. > > > > Haven't had a problem yet. User error? > > > > > > > > People mention that they can't wait to try SUSE, but they might wait for > > > their laptops to recover from Redhat 7.0. > > > > I'm not really saying the RH7 is great, (I do love debian) but it's not > > as bad as people are saying it is. All of RH .0 releases have been > > 'bleeding edge', but that is because they push the envelope. Remeber > > when they released it with glibc? Everyone complained and thought they > > we're stupid for doing so. But then everyone else joined. Stick with 6.2 > > if you want stability. Or go with debian, but if you want the latest and > > greatest RH7 is really pretty good. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org