Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 14:01:12 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: RHS Linux User <dicen@hooked.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What to do about the 2.0 GNU libc? Message-ID: <199701262201.OAA08317@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 26 Jan 1997 12:53:09 PST." <32EBC435.63297F3E@hooked.net>
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>I must appologize for my past posts to this mail list. I now see that >freebsd is the way it is for a reason. Also the handling of ppp >connections in linux and most other OS's really sucks. FreeBSD has the >best implimentation I have ever seen. > >I am curious about the up and comming GNU 2.0 libc. Since the BSD's have >their own libc will you be replacing yours with the GNU one? Not that I >like GNU to much (it seams to be becomming the Microsoft of the free >software world) but it would save a lot of developement time if you >didn't have to worry about your own library. Since this the GNU libc >will be used by Linux it would be hard to go wrong. FreeBSD would be >using the same libc are it's chief competitor. FreeBSD would then only >have the userland commands to deal with, since Linux of course has GNU >maintaining those. I hate GNU binutils. No, the GNU libc is GPL'd which would cause distribution restrictions for everything that is linked with it. Unlike GNU, we actually encourage commercial re-use of FreeBSD code (in embedded systems, for example). -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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