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RFC: The GNU C Library is no longer *the* C library on most systems with the Linux kernel (and hasn't been for a while).
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:04:46 -0500
- Subject: RFC: The GNU C Library is no longer *the* C library on most systems with the Linux kernel (and hasn't been for a while).
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Community,
Our boiler plate release text says this [1]:
~~~
The GNU C Library is used as *the* C library in the GNU systems
and most systems with the Linux kernel.
~~~
It was recently brought to my attention that this is really no
longer true given that there are over half a million Android
Bionic-based phones activated daily. There must surely be more
Linux devices running Bionic than there are Linux systems
running glibc.
What should we say instead?
Is device vs. system a real distinction or just jargon?
Should we add "enterprise" or "PC" into the above somewhere?
Cheers,
Carlos.
[1] https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release#Upload_release