well even though the older knoppix v3.4 included gcc 2.95, /usr/bin/gcc was a link to gcc 3.3.3, although gcc 2.95 was included in the distro.

the gcc in knoppix 3.8.1 points to gcc 3.3.5. Also 3.8.1 does not include gcc-2.95 in the distro.

Since both knoppix versions 3.3 and 3.8 seem to be using gcc 3.3.x, I don't think that is the issue, right?