<p>Cyent could (should?) have elaborated a little. If you follow his link: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ubuntu" rel="nofollow">http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ubuntu</a> there's a table of components of the various Ubuntus further down the page. The table shows that Ubuntu Hoary (5.04) is the most recent Ubuntu that comes with gcc 3.x (3.3.5)</p>