tlug: Redhat 5.0 Upgrades

[joem <joem@example.com>]

blaine> Someone the other night asked if there was a Redhat Linux 4.3.  To
blaine> my knowledge 4.2 was the last version put out before the release
blaine> of 5.0.  I have ordered a copy of 5.0, so if someone would like to
blaine> use it AFTER I load it up you're welcome.

There's been a discussion about RedHat 5.0 upgrades recently on the redhat
list.  Apparently, if you recently bought 4.2 you can ask for an upgrade
to 5.0 for $10 plus S&H.

Unfortunately it doesn't look like there will be a 5.0 upgrade for RedHat 
SparcLinux soon:
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Re:  Red Hat 5.0 for SPARC *not* available

From: Erik Troan <ewt@example.com>
--/snip/--
   If it was this easy, we wouldn't be discontinuing work. The real
   problems are:
       1) The 2.0.x kernel doesn't seem to be being maintained
          for the SPARC, and the 2.1.x kernel isn't stable.
       2) glibc 2.0.x has never been ported to the sparc. glibc 2.1.x
          almost works, and I don't mind working on that bit myself.
          However, glibc 2.1.x requires symbol versioning.
       3) binutils has some linker bugs which seem SPARC specific. They
          break symbol versioning in particulr (see point 2).

From: Stephen Smoogen <smooge@example.com>
--/snip/--
The reason that we cant get a 5.0 Sparc out the door at the moment is due
to the fact that glibc support is sorely lacking for that platform. What
is needed is for a lot of people to hack at binutils and possibly glibc to
get it so that packages can compile/run with the glibc2.x library set.

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Joe Marchak
joem@example.com

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