[plug] glibc question

Christian christian at amnet.net.au
Mon Mar 20 14:56:46 WST 2000


Jason Nicholls wrote:

> RedHat 5.2 runs glibc 2.0.7, it doesn't matter that you're kernel
> is in the 2.0 series. I believe RedHat were one of the first
> distros to go with glibc2 and it caused quite a few problems
> (initially with rh5.1). Other distros probably didn't bundle
> glibc2+ until a little later by which time the 2.2 series kernels
> were out.

Actually, Red Hat 5.0 was the first Red Hat to come with glibc2.  Debian
did take a little longer (which is normal for them anyway) but Debian
2.0 (first glibc2-based Debian) worked flawlessly. :-)

-- 
Christian Payne
Systems Administrator
Amnet Internet Services



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