glibc - what is the stable release?

Tim Wunder tim
Mon May 17 11:45:51 PDT 2004


On 3/24/2003 4:48 PM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out what the latest stable release of glibc is.  I
> see a 2.2.5 and i see a 2.3.1.  According to the (g)libc website:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/
> 
> 2.3.1 is the latest release, but they neglect to comment on whether its
> considered to be a devel or stable release.  anyone know for sure?  i've
> been running 2.2.5 on several of my boxes, but i'm at the point where i'm
> considering upgrading a few more and would prefer to jump right to 2.3.1,
> if its considered to be stable.  thanks.
> 

AFAIK, they don't follow the same stable/unstable convention that the 
kernel follows, so 2.3.1 is s'posed to be the latest stable release.

FWIW, Red Hat Linux 9 will have 2.3.1

Tim




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