Linked by Khoo Boon Kiat on Tue 2nd Sep 2003 17:58 UTC
Red Hat released the beta for their upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) line. The release is tagged release 2.95, Taroon. The next official release will probably be called RHEL release 3 (as usual, Red Hat does not confirm their upcoming release version and date).
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gcc 3.2.3 is the default compiler. We just include gcc-ssa for new Java work that makes Eclipse build as a native application, and new memory debugging funtionality called Mudflap.
We clearly ARE NOT using a beta build of the compiler.
With regard to NPTL, we've done extensive work and the majority of development on this technology. Scalable, sustainable POSIX threads are a demand of the Enterprise market. NPTL has already appeared in Red Hat Linux 9. Yes, there were some bugs at that time which have since been fixed. We're confidant that this is a rock solid implementation for applications which make correct use of POSIX threads. For those applications which depend on specific (broken) behavior of the legacy LinuxThreads POSIX threads implementation, we include this as well with an easy environment variable to switch between the two.