Debian Switching From Glibc To Eglibc

Posted by timothy on Wednesday May 6, 2009 @09:13AM from the dismissed-with-cause dept.

ceswiedler writes "Aurelien Jarno has just uploaded a fork of glibc called eglibc, which is targeted at embedded systems and is source- and binary-compatible with glibc. It has a few nice improvements over glibc, but the primary motivation seems to be that it's a 'more friendly upstream project' than glibc. Glibc's maintainer, Ulrich Drepper, has had a contentious relationship with Debian's project leadership; in 2007 the Debian Project Leader sent an email criticizing Drepper for refusing to fix a bug on glibc on the ARM architecture because in Drepper's words it was 'for the sole benefit of this embedded crap.'"

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Delicious by binarylarry · 2009-05-06 09:16 · Score: 0, Offtopic

This wouldn't happen to be THE Ulrich DrPepper of the legendary DrPepper clan, would it?

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Important question. by Sybert42 · 2009-05-06 09:26 · Score: 0, Offtopic

What does this have to do with the Singularity?