Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 1 Oct 2000 22:36:00 +0100 (BST)

> One never needed suse's or redhat's glibc to run binaries created on their
> platforms. Likewise one never needed their libstdc++ or their toolchain,

You regularly did. Even with libc5 there were two semi incompatible sets
of X libraries (with/without pthreads) and some other problems. Thats why we
need the LSB work

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