RedHat 7.2 Beta: Roswell

LinuxNews.pl writes: "Few days ago RedHat uploaded new Beta release of their distro - Roswell. If you want to find out more about it just go to the LinuxNews.pl" And I won't even make a snide comment about how I haven't run Red Hat in 2 years!

Comments

Re:Can't wait...

[bero-rh]

If you don't like the compiler, take a look at http://www.bero.org/gcc296.html and then fix your applications.

There are 2 reasons why we're still using 2.96 even though 3.0 has been released.

The first is binary compatibility - gcc 3.0 is not binary compatible with anything else, and we don't break binary compatibility between minor releases.

The second is that 2.96 is way more stable than the 3.0 release (though the current 3.0 branch in CVS works somewhat better). If you've ever tried compiling KDE with gcc 3.0, you'll know what I mean.

I don't think you can come up with any program that uses correct code and doesn't work with gcc 2.96 - if you can, report it so we can fix it. If you can't, don't complain.

The final will include KDE 2.2 and a proper compiler (namely 2.96 ;) ).

The explanation for this

[bero-rh]

This happens to be my fault.
Or rather, it's because I didn't have the time to build the packages when the beta was current (if you've ever worked for a linux distributor, you know there are more important things to do a couple of days before a feature freeze...), and I don't think it makes much sense to build them now (now that the beta is pretty much obsolete).

That's precisely why I chose to put a recent CVS snapshot that should be pretty close to the 2.2 release in Roswell.

If you don't like it, send some of your spare time to bero@redhat.com. ;) We haven't come up with a way to work more than 24 hours a day, but I'll keep trying. ;)