Red Hat 7.2 B2 comments (rant)

[bconway at alum.wpi.edu (Brian J.Conway)]

> As I have more or less already stated elsewhere in this thread, with
> the exception of glibc, which is only one very small piece of a very
> large system, I can do virtually everything I need to without any
> GNU code.  Authoring the C libraries does not get you the right to
> name any system that uses them.  If there were no glibc, someone else
> would have written C libraries...

Not to fuel the fire, but I thought I'd mentioned that there are multiple
C libraries out there that are free in one degree or another (among them
FreeBSD's libc).  I've looked at a couple recently that seem to be popular
in embedded systems and also work well in diskless, network-bootable
clients.  They're minimalistic for the sake of limited space available,
but there's definitely no lack of alternatives out there.

Brian J. Conway
bconway at alum.wpi.edu

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