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SuSE 8.2 Announced

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the yast-and-sax dept.

Venotar writes "It looks like SuSE's once more setting the bar pretty high. According to their recent announcement, SuSE 8.2's release date is set for April 12th. Amongst other nifty features, KDE 3.1 apparently includes tabbed browsing, the ability to sync with Exchange servers, a new administration tool called "Desktop sharing" that allows remote control of other desktops, and several interesting new crypto/security features. Gnome 2.2 is also included, as well as a profile manager for mobile users, and gcc 3.3. Have a lot of fun!"

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  1. Re:GCC 3.3 ? by Kourino · · Score: 5, Informative

    Interesting choice - apparently GCC 3.3 includes a lot of work SuSE have contributed. Will this be as controversial as Redhat's compiler choice of 2.96 a while back?

    Probably not. GCC 3.3 will be an actual official FSF release. By the time 12 April comes around I doubt SuSE's gcc lags behind the official FSF release much. Remember, 2.96 and 2.97 were basically continuations of the 2.9x branch, after the FSF had basically stopped working on it and started working on GCC 3.x.

    Thing is, gcc 3.x broke things. Also, Red Hat had a collection of IA-64 improvements for gcc that may not have made it into mainline yet. So, they made the unofficial releases because they felt that's what served their customers best. 2.96 was, I understand, the best gcc for IA-64 for a while. It just happened to have problems in other areas, unfortunately ...