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GCC 3.3.1 Switch Coming Soon On NetBSD

Posted by timothy on from the quite-a-collection dept.

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."

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  1. Re:It's dead, Jim by bsd_usr · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.