a crackpot idea i had

[dep]

begin  Aaron Grewell's  quote:
| From a stability standpoint 1.2 and 1.3 totally rocked.  It bugged
| me that the glibc issues made my boxes totally incompatible with
| everyone else's, but judging from the wailing RH users were doing
| about the early glibc2 releases I'm really glad I missed that
| evilness.

the problem with early glibc was chiefly glibc-2.07, which lots of 
distributions shipped -- but which was never an actual release. red 
hat had one, and stuff built with it would not work anywhere else; 
staroffice even had its own version, which was incompatable with red 
hat's, which is why anybody running staroffice under rh-5.1 
experienced all kinds of truly hellish disasters. at least caldera, 
in 1.2, shipped a nice little staroffice wrapper that let it work, 
more or less, much of the time. if memory serves, this mess was the 
chief reason why caldera didn't ship glibc at all, sticking to libc5, 
until col 2.2.
-- 
dep

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