After many months of initial development, we are pleased to
announce the release of uClibc 0.9.8. This release should be
quite solid, and is very usable. This also, hopefully, marks a
transition from a slow incubation phase to a more methodical
release cycle. From now one, there should be approximately one
release per month.
uClibc (aka µClibc/pronounced yew-see-lib-see) is a C library for
embedded Linux systems. It is much smaller then the GNU C
Library, but nearly all applications supported by the glibc also
work perfectly with uClibc. Porting applications from glibc to
uClibc typically involves just recompiling the source code.
uClibc supports standard Linux systems (such as x86, strongArm,
and powerpc), and also supports MMU-less (also known as uClinux
or µClinux) systems, such as those based on the Coldfire,
dragonball, or arm7tdmi micro-controllers. If you are building an
embedded Linux system and you find that glibc is eating up too
much space, you should consider using uClibc instead. If you are
building an ultra fast fileserver with 12 Terabytes of storage,
then you probably want to use glibc...
You can find the website, mailing list, and FAQ by visiting
http://uclibc.org/
The source code for this release is available at
http://uclibc.org/downloads/
-Erik
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