Andreas Metzler wrote:
Does anybody know how/if other Distributions reacted to this issue? Suse, Redhat et.al. afaik have been using gcc-3.x for more than one release.
They just don't support i386 anymore. http://www.suse.de/en/private/products/suse_linux/i386/system_requirements.html http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/technical/ You got to have a Pentium+ for these distributions. This is quite reasonable, IMO: People with older hardware can use older versions of these distributions (which they are running probably already, anyway). Regards, Martin