> > What version of glibc comes with redhat 7? glibc-2.1.92 > I've heard nothing but complaints about RH7 (therefore, I'm sticking with > RH6.2). I think it is the best release I've ever used. I've been using it for two months on a couple dozen machines without problems. I was evaluating rawhide on a few machines for months before and was quite happy with it. If you depend on old libc5 applications, though, you might want to stick with RH6.2. RH7 drops support for libc5 from what I can tell. My profession is one of compiling and maintaining software systems, so I banished libc5 from my machines over a year and a half ago, so it was no big deal for me. There are also quite a few closed source packages (Netscape 6PR3, StarOffice) that make calls to deprecated or undocumented glibc, and those crash and burn. I never liked closed source software anyway <grin>. Well mannered glibc2-compatible commercial software (e.g. Sybase, IBM, and Oracle) runs very well. The XFree4 rocks. RedHat compiles everything with SSL wherever possible in the RH7 release, and includes OpenSSH 2.2.1. The whole system is 2.4 ready, which is making it easier for me to evaluate and test my stuff to make sure I'm 2.4 ready too. To be perfectly honest, I haven't heard a single legitimate criticism of RH7 to date. The /. thread that I'm sure we all read was a bunch of ridiculous FUD mostly from folks who didn't even try it. Anyway, now you've heard something other than a complaint of RH7. I suspect you haven't heard a lot of praise, because people who are content generally have better things to do than sit around and complain. thornton _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
