upgrade gcc on fedora core 4

[Patrick Bartek]

--- On Thu, 9/9/10, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:32 PM, JD
> <jd1008 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Why not upgrade the whole installation to F13, or
> better yet, on Nov 2nd,
> > of this year F14 will be released! Upgrade to F14 and
> then do yum update
> > to get the latest compilers.
> 
> Although the OP didn't say one way or the other, the fact
> they are
> still running a FC4 machine would tend to indicate they
> don't want to
> upgrade frequently. With the ~6 month release cycle of
> Fedora I still
> think it would be better to move to another distribution.
> i.e. RHEL,
> CentOS, Ubuntu LTS, etc.

IIRC, CentOS 5, the latest version, as well as Scientific Linux, too, is based off FC6.  That's not all that far removed from 4, is it?  Although, as I recall, FC6 worked so well, for me anyway, compared to the previous releases (I had been upgrading every version since FC3, the first "good" release IMO) that I used both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions on two different machines for almost 2 years before upgrading.  

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