I can tell who lived through the a.out -> ELF transition... *BSD waited quite a while longer than Linux.
Or even libc5 -> glibc... Or even other ABI breakage!!! On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 16:22, Spider wrote: > begin quote > On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 22:25:17 +0300 (IDT) > Scharf Yuval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Can someone describe in a few sentences why it is so "dangerous" to > > install a newer version of glibc. > > > > And also what is the gain from getting NPTL? Do you think it improves > > performance very much? When is it suppose to be part of the stable > > version? > > nptl 0.55 is in a KEYWORDS="-*" masked version of glibc > > it needs kernel 2.5* (preferrably 2.6 to build) > > 2.6 is testing, bloody edge and prone to do weird things at times > > if you downgrade to 2.4 you get "error, tried to kill init. kernel > panic" messages. > > > Generally, it worked. > until my harddrive died. > then the machine didn't work anymore. :( > > > //Spider -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
