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Debian Switching From Glibc To Eglibc

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:Might be a good idea by TheLink · · Score: 0, Troll

    Stick with windows.

    That way you can continue to run many apps and viruses that are 10 years old or even older. :)

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