I heard from more than a few people that say gcc is crap really and egcs is the way to go, perhaps anything that starts with G should be dumped, with out mentioning anything.
`I heard...'--beautiful; I love people who can't think on their own.... What's egcs made out of?
I hate to defend their argument, but it would be akin to a person writing a very successful novel involving very specific characters, then someone else coming along and using those characters and the environment in their own novel without even asking permission of the original author.
... except that this author didn't create his own characters, and so he can't claim much more ownership than anyone else.
Actually, saying `Linux-based GNU' is more like saying `Pentium-based PC', not `hard drive-based PC'; I don't believe that I've seen many PCs with hard drives as their central processing units, though I have seen many Pentium-based PCs (PC/Pentium), as well as K6-based PCs (mine's a PC/K6), and I've seen a good number of computers running the GNU (pronounced "g'noo") operating system with Linux as their kernels (Linux-based GNU, AKA GNU/Linux). Some people complain that `just because it's under compiled with GCC doesn't mean it's GNU (the group, pronounced "noo" or "nyoo") software--if it was compiled with an HP compiler, would that make it HP/Linux?', and the fact is that it's not part of a GNU system because of GPL or because it was compiled with GCC--it's part of a GNU OS because the OS, sans kernel, is called `GNU'; if you were to stick Linux into a BSD system, then you'd have a `Linux-based BSD' or, in a non-formal, written document, `BSD/Linux', and, yes, if you managed to replace the HP-UX kernel with Linux, then the resulting OS would be `HP/Linux' (or maybe `HP-UX/Linux'.
Now, which box are you going to check?
. o O ( Great--now I look like a moron, too, because the/.'s PERL script does evil things....)
I rather like RPM's "--nodeps" argument to allow me to upgrade (by way of local build) libraries and such while keeping other RPM-installed software that depends on said libraries. I don't know about Debian's system, so I won't comment on it, but I don't think that a system "that will insist on upgrading all packages that DEPEND upon the selected package you are changing" is really superior--eek.
That's the way that it should be--you can make money off of causing progress in the workings, or off of distribution (selling to those who want to buy a CD-ROM just because it's easier than downloading the entire GNU system, or whatever), but taking money for the privilage of using (or even seeing) software? Ick.
It's too bad that most misinterpret `free' as meaning 'gratis'....
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I heard from more than a few people that say gcc is crap really and egcs is the way to go, perhaps anything that starts with G should be dumped, with out mentioning anything.
`I heard...'--beautiful; I love people who can't think on their own....
What's egcs made out of?
I hate to defend their argument, but it would be akin to a person writing a very successful novel involving very specific characters, then someone else coming along and using those characters and the environment in their own novel without even asking permission of the original author.
... except that this author didn't create his own characters, and so he can't claim much more ownership than anyone else.
Actually, saying `Linux-based GNU' is more like saying `Pentium-based PC', not `hard drive-based PC'; I don't believe that I've seen many PCs with hard drives as their central processing units, though I have seen many Pentium-based PCs (PC/Pentium), as well as K6-based PCs (mine's a PC/K6), and I've seen a good number of computers running the GNU (pronounced "g'noo") operating system with Linux as their kernels (Linux-based GNU, AKA GNU/Linux).
/.'s PERL script does evil things....)
Some people complain that `just because it's under compiled with GCC doesn't mean it's GNU (the group, pronounced "noo" or "nyoo") software--if it was compiled with an HP compiler, would that make it HP/Linux?', and the fact is that it's not part of a GNU system because of GPL or because it was compiled with GCC--it's part of a GNU OS because the OS, sans kernel, is called `GNU'; if you were to stick Linux into a BSD system, then you'd have a `Linux-based BSD' or, in a non-formal, written document, `BSD/Linux', and, yes, if you managed to replace the HP-UX kernel with Linux, then the resulting OS would be `HP/Linux' (or maybe `HP-UX/Linux'.
Now, which box are you going to check?
. o O ( Great--now I look like a moron, too, because the
I rather like RPM's "--nodeps" argument to allow me to upgrade (by way of local build) libraries and such while keeping other RPM-installed software that depends on said libraries.
I don't know about Debian's system, so I won't comment on it, but I don't think that a system "that will insist on upgrading all packages that DEPEND upon the selected package you are changing" is really superior--eek.
That's the way that it should be--you can make money off of causing progress in the workings, or off of distribution (selling to those who want to buy a CD-ROM just because it's easier than downloading the entire GNU system, or whatever), but taking money for the privilage of using (or even seeing) software? Ick.
It's too bad that most misinterpret `free' as meaning 'gratis'....
-Rozzin