From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 28 13:33:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat193.154.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.193.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E24951529A for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 13:33:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA27086; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 17:32:08 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 17:32:07 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Peter Wemm , Warner Losh , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc In-Reply-To: <19990228131503.A1563@relay.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message