Re: Arachne for linux: libc-compability

[Steven]

Michael Polak wrote:
> 
> We have upgraded all our Linuxes in Arachne Labs (and there 
> are many of them) to 2.2.x kernel and glibc 2.1 .... and BTW, 
> I don't see any reason for not doing that....

Sure, if you are running Linux on Pentiums, you might as well 
use the 2.2 kernel and glibc 2.1.  However, for those of us 
running Linux on old 386s and 486s, we get better performance 
and less bloat using the 2.0 kernel and libc5.  

IMHO the best market for the SVGAlib version of Arachne is 
old 486s with 8megs of RAM.  These computers do not run X
browsers very well, so Arachne should be very attractive.  
I have used many different versions of Linux on my four 
486s, and I get the best performance from Slackware 3.x
(2.0 kernel and libc5).

BTW AFAIK all of the one-floppy Linux distros are still 
using libc5.

Cheers,
Steven