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The end of gcc 2.95 support

Posted Dec 15, 2005 20:07 UTC (Thu) by captrb (subscriber, #2291)
In reply to: The end of gcc 2.95 support by hawk
Parent article: The end of gcc 2.95 support

Yes, it was 2.6 compatible when it was released. 2.4 was still the
default, but I believe there were boot floppies for 2.6.

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Posted Dec 19, 2005 15:21 UTC (Mon) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

not completely, if you run a 2.6 kernel on woody there are several other packages that you need to change out (procps is the one that annoyed me)