Hello David.
> I'd like to see if any of you could test drive the upcoming Oxygen
> release.
>
I would like to test it, where can I get it.
> After an initial foray and some fudging, it would seem that glibc 2.1
> is the way to go. I've converted Oxygen to run with glibc 2.1, and it
> seems to work well.
>
> Networking is the part that probably needs testing the most, as I
> haven't put in a host of different configuations, etc. It now uses ip
> instead of ifconfig/route, and also /etc/init.d/loopback no longer
> exists.
>
> The most notable changes to the one single boot disk is:
>
> * ipchains: missing
> * netstat: missing
> * ncurses: missing
> * ifconfig: missing
> * route: missing
> * syslinux: missing (not syslinux booting; syslinux.lrp!)
> * mkdosfs: missing
> * fdformat: missing
>
> Once I got used to it, these were not missed. ipchains is now on the
> Firewall Disk; everything else is on the "Easy Disk" which also now
> contains the editors, libm.lrp, dialog.lrp, etc. Freed up about 200M
> of space on each disk where they were found. Note that 'ip' IS
> present....
>
> As a result of going to glibc 2.1, all of the Segmentation Faults
> (fdisk, tftp, file, busybox more) all seem to have gone away! It
> feels good to be free of those problems.
great !!
>
> glibc 2.0.7 (with Debian security patches et al from 9 September) is
> suspect in that area - apparently contained in termio in glibc.
>
greetings
Eric Wolzak
http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/ericw
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