begin Aaron Grewell's quote: | From a stability standpoint 1.2 and 1.3 totally rocked. It bugged | me that the glibc issues made my boxes totally incompatible with | everyone else's, but judging from the wailing RH users were doing | about the early glibc2 releases I'm really glad I missed that | evilness.
the problem with early glibc was chiefly glibc-2.07, which lots of distributions shipped -- but which was never an actual release. red hat had one, and stuff built with it would not work anywhere else; staroffice even had its own version, which was incompatable with red hat's, which is why anybody running staroffice under rh-5.1 experienced all kinds of truly hellish disasters. at least caldera, in 1.2, shipped a nice little staroffice wrapper that let it work, more or less, much of the time. if memory serves, this mess was the chief reason why caldera didn't ship glibc at all, sticking to libc5, until col 2.2. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
