[ale] glibc and SuSE Linux 5.1

[Chris Ricker]

On 26 Nov, Mark E Hood wrote:
> Hi..thought some of you guys might be interested in this. From SuSE support.
>>
>>Dear Mr. Hood,
>>
>>S.u.S.E. Linux 5.1 isn't based on glibc ... but there is a package
>>in the unsorted directory, where the files can be found. But we don't
>>support this.

In that case, I'd recommend going with RedHat.  Glibc will be the
standard, so you might as well adopt it if you're bothering to upgrade.

Beware, of course, that glibc is not nearly as debugged as libc5 (I
haven't seen anything major, but caveat emptor) when you make your
decision.

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                 gt1355b at prism.gatech.edu