It's pgcc 1.1.3. Pgcc is a compiler based on egcs, with some additional optimizations for Pentium and higher ix86 processors. The main reason the optimizations are not yet in egcs is that they break support for some non-ix86 platforms.
Actually there are a lot of differences between 5.3 and 6.0 aside from what RH has done. For example, 6.0 has ISDN support, support for CD-Writers, the Euro key and Windoze keys, bzip2'ed man and info pages (not really user visible, but saves you quite some diskspace), and a series of new packages. Have a look at the announcement http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ venusannounce.php3 for some more details (but even the announcement isn't complete).
Mandrake 6 is not based on RH6 as in "bug compatible". (even though RH6 is not as bad as you claim). We've had problems with RH's TrueType support, as well, which is why we removed RedHat's TrueType patches to XFree86 and put in our own variant (based on X-TT). One of RH6's problems is their glibc 2.1.1 CVS snapshot; Mandrake is more current here. KDE is in/usr in Mandrake too, because we wanted to be compatible with RH (we'd prefer putting it in/usr/X11R6 to be FHS compliant), but all KDE packages are relocatable.
You can. However: Mandrake uses bzip2'ed man pages, which RH doesn't support. If you update packages with man pages, you should either run bunzip2/usr/man/*/*bz2 or update to the Mandrake man package, as well.
First of all we put in kernel patches for support of some additional chipsets, like the rather PIIX4 chipsets (used in a lot of Pentium II/III mainboards). Second, we automatically added hdparm -c 1 -d 1 to the init scripts, which is a big speedup for some drives, a small one for others.
Among other things, you get better hardware support (CD-Writers, ISDN, PC-Speaker, Windoze keys), more packages, Pentium optimizations, and TrueType support.
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Not just a net story actually.
There *WILL* be a bugfix release soon.
It's pgcc 1.1.3.
Pgcc is a compiler based on egcs, with some additional
optimizations for Pentium and higher ix86 processors.
The main reason the optimizations are not yet in
egcs is that they break support for some non-ix86
platforms.
Actually there are a lot of differences between 5.3 and 6.0 aside from what RH has done.
For example, 6.0 has ISDN support, support for CD-Writers, the Euro key and Windoze keys, bzip2'ed man and info pages (not really user visible, but saves you quite some diskspace), and a series of new packages.
Have a look at the announcement http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ venusannounce.php3 for some more details (but even the announcement isn't complete).
Mandrake 6 is not based on RH6 as in "bug compatible". (even though RH6 is not as bad as you claim). /usr in Mandrake too, because we wanted to be compatible with RH (we'd prefer putting it in /usr/X11R6 to be FHS compliant), but all KDE packages are relocatable.
We've had problems with RH's TrueType support, as well, which is why we removed RedHat's TrueType patches to XFree86 and put in our own variant (based on X-TT).
One of RH6's problems is their glibc 2.1.1 CVS snapshot; Mandrake is more current here.
KDE is in
You can. /usr/man/*/*bz2
However: Mandrake uses bzip2'ed man pages, which RH doesn't support.
If you update packages with man pages, you should either run
bunzip2
or update to the Mandrake man package, as well.
First of all we put in kernel patches for support of some additional chipsets, like the rather PIIX4 chipsets (used in a lot of Pentium II/III mainboards).
Second, we automatically added hdparm -c 1 -d 1 to the init scripts, which is a big speedup for some drives, a small one for others.
Among other things, you get better hardware support (CD-Writers, ISDN, PC-Speaker, Windoze keys), more packages, Pentium optimizations, and TrueType support.
The announcement at
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ venusannounce.php3 has more details.