said Gene Heskett:

| Having lived thru red hat 5.0/5.1, I now believe its one of the physical
| laws of the universe. 5.1, FWIW, was actually a quite usable distro. If
| whatever you wanted wasn't available, there was always bash.  I still
| have little bits and pieces of it making my life a lot less work.

That was during or after the ridiculous nonstandard gcc wars, when 
everybody produced his own version and associated libraries, such that 
nothing worked reliably anywhere. 

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