Graham Murray
It could be built with (and include) gcc 3.1 (or 3.1.1) rather than 2.95.3.
Yes, it'll be a gcc3 based distribution. With the many different hardware platforms SuSE supports, including x86-64 (Hammer/Opteron), PPC (32/64 Bit) and IBM Z-Series (S/390), there wasn't much choice, given that we wanted to use only one version of gcc and not three or more versions.
I am sure that there are many other packages which have newer versions than shipped with SuSE 8.0 or available via YOU.
Given that our policy is to restrict updates to bugfixes and security fixes and to avoid version updates by all means, it's only natural to expect the next SuSE Linux version to ship with newer packagers. Philipp -- Philipp Thomas work: pthomas@suse.de Development SuSE Linux AG private: philippt@t-online.de