Re: Pre-announcement?
"William Hooper" <[email protected]>
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The Matt said: > On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 13:45, William Hooper wrote: >> Rick Johnson said: >> > Michael St. Laurent wrote: >> >> I just got an end-of-life notification for an old system.[snip] >> >> If you have a basic subscription to RHN you get an announcement also. >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > Red Hat 9.0? What happened to 8.1? >> >> Binary compatibility. RH always goes to x.0 when they don't preserve >> binary compatibility. Now you know why some people (like me) think it >> was silly to be calling it RH 8.1 beta in the newsgroups. > > Wait, binary broke between 8.0 and Phoebe? I thought Phoebe used gcc > 3.2 and glibc 2.3, or did I not look close enough? (I'm not on my > Phoebe=home machine at the moment.) > > Are they going to go to gcc 3.3 or 3.4, then? I was thinking more along the lines of the Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL) that seemed to break a lot of things (binary wise). As an example, you can't run the Phoebe httpd binary on 8.0. -- William Hooper -- Phoebe-list mailing list [email protected] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list