Martin Kuchar wrote:

>
>1) Immunix 7 is very old distribution. Do you plan to build new (with
>Glibc 2.4, Kernel 2.4.x, etc) ?
>
Immunix 7 came out somewhat after Red Hat 7.0, and thus did not share
some of its worst ".0" problems:

    * Immunix used glibc 2.2, rather than the pre-release 2.1.9-something
    * Immunix used gcc 2.92, rather than the pre-alpha quality gcc 2.95

We hope to come out with Immunix 7.2 some time in the spring. Emphasis
on "hope" ;-) In addition to updates, it will have some attractive new
Immunix features that are not presently available. Some of those
features are part of the delay.

>2) I vant to build my own Linux with StackGuard and FormatGuard. Is this
>possible ? What about license ? Are the patches GPL'd ?
>
StackGuard and FormatGuard are both fully GPL, and provided on the
Immunix distro. Build and enjoy.

>3) Do you have patches portable to new Glibc and GCC (egcs) ?
>
No, there are problems:

    * It is not trivial to forward-port StackGuard to newer GCC's. We
      are working on a robust forward port to GCC 3.0.* but it is not
      ready yet.
    * Newer glibc requires compilers newer than GCC 2.92, and thus
      cannot be compiled with StackGuard. Until we have StackGuard 3.0,
      we're backporting patches rather than ship a non-StackGuard glibc.

>4) Why egcs ? Why not GCC in stable version 2.95.3 ?
>
It's just a package name. What we ship is really gcc 2.29. Also, gcc
2.95.anything is not considered stable by the GCC developers; that is
Red Hat's idea. We are going to jump from gcc 2.92 to gcc 3.0.*.

Thanks,
    Crispin

-- 
Crispin Cowan, Ph.D.
Chief Scientist, WireX Communications, Inc. http://wirex.com
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