Re: tlug: Sparc RedHat 5.1 tidbits

[Christopher Sekiya <wileyc@example.com>]

On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Gak.  Will they ever learn?
> 
> 	 "Red Hat Linux.  It may be broken, but it's first."

*ROFL*

I'm still trying to reconcile Alan's "we will _not_ ship dev kernels in
RedHat" statement with this sparc kernel on the bench in front of me.
Talk about brokenness ... well, in fairness, I suppose it's not important
how _well_ the bear waltzes.

> Any bets on upgradability?

I'll bet that dropping a 2.1 CVS snapshot kernel on the IPC will break
their glibc, yes.

Recompile their glibc?  Suuuuurrrreeee ... whatever they used to compile
it, it definitely wasn't a release-grade binutils ...

--	Chris (wileyc@example.com)

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