Re: [PLUG] Kernel 2.4 under RH7

Walt Mankowski <waltman@netaxs.com> · Tue, 10 Apr 2001 15:35:34 -0400

On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 12:27:00PM -0700, beldon@speakeasy.net wrote:
> The following is quoted from the Linux kernel mailing list: 
> 
> "Subject: Re: Signal 11
> Date: 14 Dec 2000 11:11:28 -0800
> From: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> 
> Quite frankly, anybody who uses RedHat 7.0 and their broken compiler
>  for _anything_ is going to have trouble.

...

> In case it wasn't obvious yet, I consider RedHat-7.0 to be basically
> unusable as a development platform, and I hope RH downgrades their
> compiler to something that works better RSN.

Interesting.  I'd heard some talk about this, and it's a big reason
I'm still running redhat 6.2.

I take it things haven't gotten any better in the last 4 months?

Walt