Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 17:32:07 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902281728190.59717-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <19990228131503.A1563@relay.nuxi.com>
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On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, David O'Brien wrote:
> In addition, at schools it is getting harder and harder to convince people
> to try FreeBSD when we have a broken C++ compiler in the base system. In
> case some aren't aware, C++ is now part of the standard CS curriculum
> these days.
I work as System Administrator at a Canadian University that is *totally*
wired. All new students get a laptop as part of their tuition, and profs
make heavy use of it. The Computer Science department's "template" is a
Win95/Linux mix...and the reason has nothing to do with C++.
Most of the reason revolves around hardware support...the laptops are all
IBM thinkpads, and the Linux kernel is barely able to drive the ethernet
card used, as well as graphics...FreeBSD didn't even stand a chance :(
It should be too easy to replace the compiler after the system is
installed...and shouldn't be seen as a major "hindrance"...
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
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