Xun Cheng wrote:
> 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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Whats the mistake?
Scott Kindley
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