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From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux
Date: 27 May 1997 00:12:17 -0400
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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David E. O'Brien <obrien@relay.nuxi.com> writes:

>> converting to ELF, and now we're due for libc6 == glibc2 which is
> I'm curious.  I've seen a few references to libc6 and glibc2.  Just what
> is this?  I thought Linux used glibc all along.

In short: The Linux group changed glibc to their needs, incompatibly
with other architectures and with GNU coding standards.  The version
numbers split.  They have recently merged with the advent of glibc
v2.

Happy hacking,
joelh

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