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




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