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I'll explain:

I'll explain:

Posted Oct 25, 2006 16:11 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: I'll explain: by khim
Parent article: GPLv3: What the Hackers Said (Linux Journal)

From the point of view of compiling and running non-sysadmin-as-root things, glibc/coreutils and uClibc/busybox are similar: they're POSIX. glibc is a more complete implementation than uClibc, but there's no magic GNU sauce that makes uClibc 'not a toy'.

(However, it *is* targetted at a different domain, and I'd not expect to see distros using uClibc springing up because of uClibc's intentional total lack of ABI guarantees.)


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