On Monday 09 October 2006 23:12, Allen J. Newton wrote: > Hi, > > I was looking at the web site today: > (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs/news.html) and noticed the > comments from 2006/10/03 about downgrading to linux-2.4 and > gcc-3.4.6. > > Is HLFS no longer using linux-2.6? Were there security issues with > that? I know some developers I work with were not happy with > gcc-4.0.3 in general (the fortran compiler, specifically).
The idea is to split into stable and development branches, with the stable branch reverting to the tried-and-tested (and bugfix-only) linux-2.4 and gcc-3.4.6 series. Alex :-) -- Pippin Computer Monkey to the Pelican www.oxrev.org.uk, www.corpusjcr.org, www.rev.org.uk 0870 120 0870, ext 26669
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