> To be honest i find 1.4.* much less stable than the  1.3.*:
> for example with applications like top and the ps -aux command it
> continuously drops into debugger with the fpu_add error message and
> although this is an LC475 without fpu it had no problems with the 1.3.*
> release.

Can you provide more details on the "fpu_add error"?  I've been pretty
busy and must have missed discussion on this.

> 2.certain 1.4.* pre-compiled packages  depend on others not available for
> example minicom depends on kermit and another one depending on a ncurses

For minicom, anyway, kermit has a license that restricts the
distribution of binaries, I believe, so we _can't_ legally 
provide a binary package for that.

-allen