Debian switching to EGLIBC

Posted May 6, 2009 14:41 UTC (Wed) by mbanck (subscriber, #9035)
In reply to: Debian switching to EGLIBC by alex
Parent article: Debian switching to EGLIBC

I had no idea things where so bad in mainline for Debian to consider switching libc implementations.

Eglibc is not a different implementation - it is basically a branch of glibc which is regularly synced and which you can fine-configure how you like. Plus its maintainers say they will be more friendly towards users etc.

Michael