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Re: 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: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject dot org>
- Cc: <ams at gnu dot org>, Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 18:21:39 +0000
- Subject: Re: 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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On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Josh Boyer wrote:
> "The GNU C Library is widely used as the C library on machines under
> the broader GNU ecosystem."
Be careful about "ecosystem" in GNU announcements; see
<https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html>.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com