if, as has been suggested, there are apps that don't work on FC4, that's to be expected. takes time for apps to be rebuilt/tested and distributed to the various distribution sites... however, if three's a potential problem with FC4 regarding the gc compilers, then that's a potential issue that really should be checked!! but then, again, that's why you shouldn't go rushing head first to apply the latest/greatest apps on systems that you really need to do work with! but it really would be nice/good/etc.. to be able to go somewhere and see what combinations of things have been tested/verified so you can get a feel for what works/might not work/etc... -bruce -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 6:30 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: FC4 good new tech, bad legacy support On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 15:27, Richard Kelsch wrote: > I still stand by my claim that FC4 fails > the intentions of the project. Nevertheless, I know it will be fixed > eventually, perhaps FC5. But you could bet that it would not be fixed if it wasn't released in its current state so people could fix it. That's the point of the fedora releases - it is supposed to meet the usability intentions by the *end* of a release, when the effort shifts to a new batch of code and the updates to this one stop. Since there are 3 prior releases you can get a pretty good idea how this works by looking back at the updates that made the other versions usable. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
