redhat rawhide

[Richard Kenner]

    I can see why they might need to stick with 2.96 because of redhat 7.0
    but still. Could you please give one valid reason for them doing this
    over using gcc 2.95? 

That's past history.  You can't "unring the bell".  I think a lot of
people agree that was a bad choice, but now that they've done it, I
don't think they have much choice but to continue to distribute that
compiler until GCC 3.0 is released.