[ale] libc?

Chris Ricker kaboom at gatech.edu
Tue Dec 1 02:29:43 EST 1998


On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Paul D. Manno wrote:

> Red Hat Linux-en uses glibc with Red Hat release 5.0 and beyond.

Actually, some of the non-Intel ports were glibc-based back in the 4.x days.
That's one of the less-mentioned reasons for migrating the whole linux world
to glibc--libc5 doesn't run on most non-Intel platforms, and it isn't
exactly the world's most portable code.

later,
chris






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