Debian Switching From Glibc To Eglibc

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.'"

Comments

Re:Doesn't matter

[Burkin]

and have a 1+mb

Oh my god! Not 1 whole megabyte! How will our modern computers with gigabytes of HDD space and 100s of megs of ram ever be able to handle a 1+ megabyte binary!

Re:Might be a good idea

[TheLink]

Stick with windows.

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

Re:At Least It's Egier to Use and Less Glib

[Anonymous Coward]

Stop with the fucking assburger defense. It's only ever people who wish they were hotshot rockstar programmers and think it's cool to be a total cunt that bring it up. Don't be one of them.