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9 Jun 2003 (updated 9 Jun 2003 at 13:37 UTC) »

For some wonderful and happy reason, tromey, mjw, Anthony and Jeff have all suddenly become active on GCJ again, all at the same time, after being dormant for several weeks! For some weird reason, they had also all gone dormant at about the same time.

This weekend I finally found out that the intermittent and increasingly irritating crashes on my home PC while building GCC on Linux was actually due to a defective RAM module - after removing the offending module, everything was back to normal, even after extended stress testing.

I do not want to code for Windows any more!

As a developer, I have always enjoyed working on Linux and have hated working on Windows. In the recent past, I have been exposed to all sorts of Windows ugliness trying to make GCJ work on Windows - I did not enjoy it at all!

This just is not my cup of tea - I love working on Linux and that is what I shall do.

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