Re: glibc 2, Linux 2.x and the world of many patches!

Michael Harnois (mharnois@sbt.net)
30 Jul 1997 14:25:47 -0500


Teunis Peters <teunis@usa.net> writes:

> Though adoption will have to be MUCH higher before any of the
> linux-distribs actively go with glibc... and this will hurt glibc in the
> short run.

Uh ... er ... I don't know how to break this to you ... but the Debian
development tree is based on glibc. Applications are being ported
faster than you can shake a stick. It's not very hard ... even I've
ported a few, and believe me, if I can do it, anyone can do it.

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