Messages in this thread |  | | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: No Distribution is 2.0.0 Current | Date | Mon, 24 Jun 1996 09:16:54 +0100 (BST) |
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> To me to be 2.0.0 current all free packages must be compiled > against the Linux 2.0.0 source tree, with the same libc or later than > the developers use. It must also include the kernel support utilities > that have been patched to work with 2.0.0 and all support tools need > to be updated to support all the standard features of 2.0.0.
Actually most of the kernel developers are using RedHat 3.0.3, older Slackware or Debian. In fact for a very long time I was using RH 2.1 simply because "it worked", and if you change your user mode tools its then harder to guess what has introduced a new bug. So I'm happily trundling along with libc5.2.18, all the tools built against it and a few new blocks of files.
> Please do not call any distribution Current yet. Yes some can support > the compilation of 2.0.0. But I know all of them require upgrading to > be current with the system I currently run. Libc-5.3.12 for example.
I think much of the rest of this has some good points in it. I'll run libc5.3.12 when it appears on distributions and only after a few kernel builds are checked to work in both environments. Paranoia is a wonderful thing
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