Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 00:41 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
>
>>Ok. Thanks. I'm not familiar with the history of Red Hat. But what
>>you say makes sense in light of what I have experienced over
>>on the FCx mail echo.
>
>
> I apologize if I "overloaded" you. I'm not going to do it anymore to
> anyone, I'll just post links to the archives or the old FAQ I have.
I didn't notice any overload.
BTW, I've been doing cross-development since about 1985 (though
not using Linux as the development platform).
>>Umm, I think perhaps you missed the fact that the target system
>>does not run Linux.
>
>
> I didn't. In fact, I'm glad to see someone else who has used GNU/Linux
> to target other platforms. [ Love to talk off-list sometime ]
I directed that at Les Mikesell, to whom I replied.
Shoot me an e-mail and we'll talk.
>>Couldn't this same argument be made for FC2? I've put myself on the
>>Legacy update notification, and have used yum over a dozen times,
>>but not downloaded one single fix.
>
>
> Well, I've made my recommendation. You're fine with your FC2 setup, tap
> Legacy if you need to. Consider CentOS 4 when you want to install
> another development system.
Thanks. My point here was, apparently there is nothing serious enough
wrong with FC2 to warrant Legacy fixing, and which I have installed.
I really didn't install much beyond the core, GNOME, KDE, development
package (GCC toolset) and Open Office. That's about it.
Mike
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