Re: Code names

1999-10-18 Thread Matthew Dalton
Martin Fluch wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Oki DZ wrote: > > > Where did hamm (?), slink, and potato come from? Toy Story? > > Jep. > > > When are we going to have buzz version? > > Dono (no expert in that :) Debian 1.1 was 'buzz', 1.2 was 'rex' and 1.3 was 'bo'

Re: Code names

1999-10-18 Thread Martin Fluch
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Oki DZ wrote: > Where did hamm (?), slink, and potato come from? Toy Story? Jep. > When are we going to have buzz version? Dono (no expert in that :) Martin -- If the box says 'Windows 95 or better', it should run on Linux, right?

Re: code-names

1997-04-07 Thread Bruce Perens
> Two questions: > 1. What's good about GNU libc? > 2. Whose libc is libc5? LIBC5 is GNU libc with substantial patches for Linux. LIBC6 is GNU libc with the Linux support merged back in to the main source thread. GNU calls these LIBC 1 and 2. We call it LIBC6 on Linux because our version numbers d

Re: code-names

1997-04-07 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Vadim Vygonets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 1. What's good about GNU libc? All Linux distributions without exception have decided to use it, as far as I am aware. I think this is because H.J. Lu, the current Linux libc maintainer, led the movement. The library will be used on, Hurd, and MkLinux. >

Re: code-names

1997-04-04 Thread David Engel
On Apr 3, Douglas L Stewart wrote > On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > Can we use glibc NOW along with the normal c lib? I have a program that > > will require the use of pthreads and it might be a good idea to use a > > thread safe C library, I can likely get by without, but.. > > li

Re: code-names

1997-04-04 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Douglas L Stewart wrote: > On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > libc 6 hasn't been officially released yet and it'll be a little while > before any distribution includes it as a stable package. I'd suggest just > getting a normal pthreads package and being careful t

Re: code-names

1997-04-04 Thread Douglas L Stewart
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Can we use glibc NOW along with the normal c lib? I have a program that > will require the use of pthreads and it might be a good idea to use a > thread safe C library, I can likely get by without, but.. libc 6 hasn't been officially released yet and

Re: code-names

1997-04-04 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Douglas L Stewart wrote: [Clip about glibc] > 3) Fully MT safe. Can we use glibc NOW along with the normal c lib? I have a program that will require the use of pthreads and it might be a good idea to use a thread safe C library, I can likely get by without, but.. Thanks, Jas

Re: code-names

1997-04-04 Thread Douglas L Stewart
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Vadim Vygonets wrote: > > The release after that will be Debian-2.0 . The major difference in 2.0 > > will be that it is based on GNU LIBC, known in Linux circles as "libc 6". > > Two questions: > 1. What's good about GNU libc? A million things. 1) Full internationalization.

Re: code-names

1997-04-03 Thread Vadim Vygonets
On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > The release after that will be Debian-2.0 . The major difference in 2.0 > will be that it is based on GNU LIBC, known in Linux circles as "libc 6". Two questions: 1. What's good about GNU libc? 2. Whose libc is libc5? Vadik. -- Vadim Vygonets * [EMAIL P