Re: More up to date Linux products

Edward S. Marshall (emarshal@common.net)
Sun, 11 May 1997 13:44:11 -0500 (CDT)

On Sun, 11 May 1997, Stephen Fisher wrote:
> I don't understand how the kernel version can have anything to do with it?
> Wouldn't a Linux binary be a Linux binary as long as it were a.out or elf
> and the same as the system.

Kernel version is just a handy placeholder. What I'm more interested in
seeing is software being compiled against newer libraries, and checked for
problems with newer utilities. Although the kernel version doesn't
generally change much, changes in libraries will. I'm expecting a LOT of
complaints from people when we start migrating to libc.so.6 (aka glibc)
asking for more recent compiles (so they can toss their old libc 5
libraries).

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