[plug] ISO's please

[bob]

On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 22:37:54 +0800
Leon Brooks <leon at brooks.fdns.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 10:54, bob wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 09:21, Leon Brooks wrote:
> >> On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:09, sol wrote:
> >>> My question here is:
> >>> Does anyone have the latest version of SuSE (8.0) or Mandrake
> >>> (8.3) on CD?
> 
> >> My mistake, the latest is now 9.0beta1; Mandrake 9.0 is scheduled
> >> to be out in 5-6 weeks.
> 
> > I understand that 9.0 is to be compiled using  gcc-3.1, is this
> > going to be a _major_ problem ? (incompatibilities with other S/W).
> 
> Yes. But RH are migrating as well for their next version, so the
> hiccup will be temporary. Or to put it another way: `What? You still
> use binaries?' (-:

Ok, thats good to know. I _do_ use the src (cause mdk rpm are sometimes
hard to find :) so I don't think it'll be a big problem for me but I do
think its going to put the noses of a few newbies out when they find
that this rpm they've just downloaded won't run and to fix it they have
to do all this scary typing, like ./configure and make. Being root won't
be a problem of course :).

> Given how fast modern machines are, projects liek SourceMage aren't at
> all outrageous any more.

Thats fine unless you have a box that takes 2hrs to compile "hello
world" (vis Computer Angels).

> Cheers; Leon