Warning About RedHat 7

[jtshaw]

For all of you out there contemplating going the RedHat7 route beware...the version of GCC they package with it is absolute trash. Linus Torvalds himself sent a letter to the kernel development list talking about how he was disapointed in RedHat for releasing that GCC version and that the GCC development team wasn't happy either. RedHat abviously knew something wasn't working right since they included "kgcc" which is basically an older version of gcc that they say to use for kernel compiles. Anyway, I just thought some of you guys might be interested in this.

Here is Linus's E-mail if you want to read it yourself.

 

[rahvin]

Redhat is trying to stabilize the gcc tree. It would have been a year before it stabilized if they didn't do what they did. Jesus man, they did the same bloody thing with Redhat 5.2, mellow out. How often do you actually compile stuff or do you just use the prebuilt binary RPMs?

 

[jtshaw]

I compile almost every program I install, but then again I don't use RedHat, I use Slack. It is just irresponsible for them to be releasing distros that use broken gcc compilers, there is no wonder a lack of compatibility exsists between RedHat and a lot of programs made for generic linux. I just thought people might want to know if they are having trouble compiling things like device drivers that they were given in a non-rpm format. Afterall, not everything out there is availible for download in rpm..at least not everything I use.

I also happen to do a lot of development in C and C++ on my linux box so something like that would effect me a whole heck of a lot.

 

[nexus9]

Yeah, a lot of people were disappointed by redhat 7(.0). I've been sticking with 6.2. Hopefully 7.1 (or whatever they call it) will have the kinks worked out of it, and will be fully based on the linux 2.4 kernel...

-Nexus9