[2259] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Linux Athena questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Mon Oct 19 15:31:43 1998
To: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 19 Oct 1998 15:30:49 -0400
In-Reply-To: tb@MIT.EDU's message of "Mon, 19 Oct 1998 15:24:10 -0400"
tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:
> How long has RedHat been bad with things for 4.x? Only since 5.0 came
> out, or for longer?
Longer, though it's gotten worse lately. For instance, they never
bumped libc 5 past 5.3.12, even though 5.4 has been out and stable for
quite some time.
There are also some issues with 5.1, particular wrt running old libc 5
binaries. (The compatibility package is woefully incomplete.)
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
