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Slackware 13.37: Linux for the fun of itSlackware 13.37: Linux for the fun of itPosted Mar 23, 2011 10:29 UTC (Wed) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246)In reply to: Slackware 13.37: Linux for the fun of it by corbet Parent article: Slackware 13.37: Linux for the fun of it
Oh yeah, I remember that. libc4 to libc5....
And I remember "impure" executables, great when you wanted a really tiny a.out file. "gcc -N", right? That allowed your data and code segments to overlap, rather than be page aligned....
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Slackware 13.37: Linux for the fun of it Posted Mar 23, 2011 12:00 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Yes indeed. ZMAGIC and QMAGIC, happy days...
Of course then there was libc5 -> libc6 and we had to recompile everything *again*, and it took forever to compile glibc or X on my 8Mb RAM 486...
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