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| From: | Tobias Klausmann <klausman@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] heads up: glibc-2.20 will require >=linux-2.6.32 | ||
| Date: | Wed, 06 Aug 2014 07:59:48 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20140806075940.GA51819@skade.schwarzvogel.de | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-dev] heads up: glibc-2.20 will require >=linux-2.6.32 by Mike Frysinger |
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| 1 | Hi! |
| 2 | |
| 3 | On Sun, 03 Aug 2014, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
| 4 | > upstream glibc has dropped support for older Linux kernels. your choices: |
| 5 | > - upgrade your kernel |
| 6 | > - switch to a different C library |
| 7 | > - stick with glibc-2.19 for a while |
| 8 | |
| 9 | Also note that 2.6.32 is the oldest longterm kernel. If you use |
| 10 | something older, you haven't gotten any security updates at all |
| 11 | for a while. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | Regards, |
| 14 | Tobias |
| 15 | |
| 16 | -- |
| 17 | Sent from aboard the Culture ship |
| 18 | ROU (Killer-class) Revisionist |