GCC 3.3.1 Switch Coming Soon On NetBSD

Dan writes "Matthew Green says he is ready to switch sparc, sparc64, i386 & alpha ports to using GCC3.3.1 by default on NetBSD. He's uploaded 4 snapshots (one per port ;-), all cross compiled from i386-netbsd. However, there appears to be work involved with fixing approximately 193 broken packages, as reported by NetBSD's Jan Schaumann."

Comments

Re:It's dead, Jim

[bsd_usr]

That's probably because most BSD users have given up on the Slashdot BSD section. The Slashdot BSD section is overrun by trolls and FUD.

BSD is software which can be used freely by anyone. The only way for BSD to die is for people to completely stop using BSD code, but since BSD code is used in so many other software products it really won't ever die.

It's the immaturity of some of these Slahdot readers that have made the Slashdot BSD section go down the drain. But really, you know what's really sad. That these people have nothing esle to do in their poor excuse of a life that they turn to the BSD section to spout out FUD and repeat the "BSD is Dying" troll.

Why do I come here then? Because I too have nothing better to do. Actually, I guess maybe because sometimes through all the trolls and FUD there are some good posts.

Re:It's dead, Jim

[archen]

Given up? I wouldn't say that. Simply put there isn't anything glamorous happening in the world of BSD from a sensationalist point of view. And lets face it, most of the BSD headlines just aren't that interesting. I mean what is there to say about one of the BSDs moving to GCC 3x?

BSD is Rhyming (Re:The *BSD Wailing Song)

[ThreeFarthingStone]

Wow! BSD is the most fun of dying software. Skilled Anonymous Cowards get to make careful calculations about the number of remaining users, and now BSD even receives poems that rhyme!

It seems that the dead or near-dead, like BSD and Mac OS 9, only seem to get more interesting. Mac OS 9 is almost dead, of course, because it was replaced by Mac OS X, which is BSD-based. But the death of BSD seems to be far more interesting anything else. When Microsoft killed Internet Explorer for the Mac, the only result was a typical, hundreds-of-comments Slashdot article. But Mac is now BSD-based, of course.

I recently repaired Mac OS 9 and added OpenBSD to what had been essentially a GNU/Linux-only system. Interestingly, since BSD is relying on life-support from Linux software, I was able to keep running KDE as usual. Now, when BSD is dying, seems to be the most interesting time to run BSD on a computer.