[bananas] Linux woes

[Mory]

> 2. The AIPS group has received a report from a user who attempted to
>    install and run AIPS on a PC running Red Hat 7.0.  The GNU
>    compilers (gcc, g77) included with this version of Red Hat were
>    merely a snapshot ("2.96") of a development system and not a
>    properly released version, something for which the Red Hat people
>    subsequently got severely criticized.  The "current" release of
>    gcc/g77 at the time was (and still is) 2.95.
I was the person that attempted to install on a redhat 7 machine, I
eventually got it installed and somewhat working right.  It runs, but we
are having a problem viewing images... ZSSSLOCK or something like that..
Ran into another linux problem today.. I have a copy of mandrake 7.2 that
I'm probably going to replace RH7 with, it comes with gcc 2.95. 
Redhat has released update rpm's for 2.96, the install worked after I
installed them, but I'm afraid the rest of the system is failing.

Has anyboy tried mandrake 7.2 yet?
-Mory-