Hi all, terribly sorry for bringing this up yet again, but it seems that
when Linus Hisself says this:
http://news.linuxprogramming.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-12-14-008-05-CD
...we should maybe take notice? Or not?
This is particularly important for me because I'm the sysadmin for a
development house that's considering upgrading from 6.2 to 7.0; we like
the 2.4 kernel, I've been running RH7 at work and at home for several
weeks now and like it a lot, but if there are hidden landmines ahead I
don't want to lead my users into frustration.
BTW, we don't develop C or C++, we work in Java; I mention this because,
while it may sidestep the direct gcc issue, Java has all kinds of its
own nutty platform dependency issues and I'd hate to watch a room full
of programmers spending all their time asking "Why does exception X
occur?" when the cause is actually "broken libraries" in our Linux
setup. I've seen such things before in my short tenure here and they
are a real pain to track down.
Yes, the real answer as always is "test before you deploy," and
naturally we will do that, but testing can only catch so much so I'm
hoping to benefit from the "many eyeballs" who read this list. So I'm
especially interested in hearing from anyone who has used RH7 as a host
for Java development and/or deployment.
Thanks much, and again, profound apologies for resurrecting a tired,
nay, exhausted thread.
-m
--
Michael Jinks, IB // Technical Entity // Saecos Corporation
"No one speaks English and everything's broken." -- T. Waits
"Tom Waits would have made a decent sysadmin." -- M. Jinks
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