libc5 is a kind of mistake which every free developed OS like
linux was hard to avoid. I don't think backward compatibility
is very important for this kind of mistake and this kind
of OS. Otherwise what we will get is just another UNIX or
Windows.
xun
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 23:58:14 -0500
From: Scott Kindley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Im just catching the last of the "Re: RH 5.0 without glibc (libc-6) (was: Can't
execute RH 5.0 exe" thread but I have a question I don't think has been answered
(at least not that I have found), Why is," libc5 going away (according to one
post in this thread) and all linux distro's soon to follow or be dead". I cant
understand why a 5.x version ISN'T backward compatible with libc5. Seems to me,
IMHO, if libc5 was to become unsupported it should phase out over a couple of
versions while the interim versions maintain backward compatibility.
*** A little humor---while spell checking this email with a Linux version of
Netscape 4.04, Linux and linux wasn't in the dictionary list--- I had to add it.
Just curious,
Scott Kindley
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