Amazon Linux 2 Rolls Out For EC2, On-Site Virtual Machine Images

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Amazon Linux 2 Rolls Out For EC2, On-Site Virtual Machine Images

Amazon AWS has announced their "next generation" version of their Amazon Linux operating system intended for running on their EC2 compute cloud as well as on-site via VMware/VirtualBox/Hyper-V images that are free to all...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Amazon-Linux-2

[carwyn]

Link to AWS broken, trimmed to https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wha...mazon-linux-2/ it works.

[FireBurn]

There is no GCC 7.2.1 - go check the GCC website!

[Michael]

There is no GCC 7.2.1 - go check the GCC website!

Yeah it is. GCC 7.2.1 is the version they use in their repo now until the GCC 7.3 stable release.

[FireBurn]

Yeah it is. GCC 7.2.1 is the version they use in their repo now until the GCC 7.3 stable release.

Can you show me the link to the download for it?

[Michael]

Can you show me the link to the download for it?

https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/archive/gcc-7-branch.zip

[FireBurn]

https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/ar...c-7-branch.zip

Well as you can see from the link that you posted this isn't _7.1.1_ it's 7 branch and that download will change whenever the branch changes

Also if you look at https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/releases you can see there is no 7.1.1 release either, if distros are using snapshots, they should be specifying which one they're using

I'm not meaning to get on at you, it's just this stupid numbering system GNU is using

Clearly they should be tagging fixes when they arise

[Michael]

Well as you can see from the link that you posted this isn't _7.1.1_ it's 7 branch and that download will change whenever the branch changes

Also if you look at https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/releases you can see there is no 7.1.1 release either, if distros are using snapshots, they should be specifying which one they're using

I'm not meaning to get on at you, it's just this stupid numbering system GNU is using

Clearly they should be tagging fixes when they arise

Right. FWIW though, with GCC bumping their date in Git/SVN on a daily basis, it's easy to figure out when it was fetched... In Amazon Linux 2 case with testing it earlier it comes out to GCC 7.2.1 20170915. But I agree and am not a fan of GCC versioning either.