Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4348 mails)

[Herman Knief <herman@xxxxxxxxx>]

The only REAL problem that has surfaced is with *some* interactions with 
Java... namely the Java plugin for browsers and a few Java apps that 
tend to make system calls back to the OS.  As everyone else is switching 
to gcc 3.2 (even Sun now has gcc 3.2 as part of their contrib. 
packages), I am sure it will be only a short time before the issue of 
having a JRE/JDK complied with 3.2  is available.  Besides this, 8.1 is 
actually very nice and the fact that it is built with gcc 3.2 offers a 
lot of performance benefits (3.2 is just a better compiler.)  If you 
really need Java to work... then yes, maybe you should stick with 8.0 
for now.  Otherwise, there is nothing to hold you back.

- Herman

Doug McGarrett wrote:

> On Monday 07 October 2002 22:45, Beau E. Cox wrote:
>  
>
> > Yeah - OK - I'll buy it - Thanks Herman.
> >
> > Aloha => Beau.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Herman Knief [mailto:herman@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 4:04 PM
> > To: Beau E. Cox
> > Cc: Suse-Linux-E
> > Subject: Re: [SLE] when will 8.1 be available on the ftp site
> >
> >
> > Not for a while.... why don't you support them and buy it!
> >
> > - Herman
> >
> > Beau E. Cox wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > Hi -
> > >
> > > 	Does anyone know when 8.1 will be available for
> > > download on the suse ftp site? I can't find it...
> > >
> > > Aloha => Beau.
> > >      
>
>
> From what I have been reading on this list, probably nobody should buy it. 
> I know new releases tend to have bugs, but this is a dot release--it should
> have killed the bugs.   I think SuSE screwed up badly, and we should all
> wait for version 8.2, or just use the 8.0 version for quite a while.  --doug
>
>  

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