Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 25th Aug 2007 19:56 UTC, submitted by AdamW
The second beta of Mandriva Linux 2008, codenamed Galilee, is now available. The release notes are available here. A guide to major new features (some of which are not yet implemented in this beta) is available here, and the detailed technical specifications are available here. This beta is available as a three CD or one DVD Free edition (containing no non-free software or drivers) for the x86-32 and x86-64 architectures, with a traditional installer. Future betas will be available in One live/install CD hybrid editions with proprietary drivers.
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2005-07-06
Looking at that page, GIZA++ hasn't been updated since 2003. There have been several major GCC revisions since then. It's simply not practical to stay on a version of GCC that works for this and maybe a couple of other old apps (3.3?) by default, and introduce huge difficulties in building more widely used and up-to-date software which is now targeting GCC 4.
A distributor's job is always going to involve trade offs. In this case, I'm afraid, there's just more benefits overall to defaulting to GCC 4 than GCC 3.