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Re: [HACKERS] (: JDBC+(Sun ~3:pm MST) CVS :) -also question about regression tests

Andrew Martin <martin@biochemistry.ucl.ac.uk> — 1998-02-03T16:14:23Z

> > > > > > I'll say it again and again - glibc-2.0 is the _STANDARD_ (actually
> > > > > > reference) platform for Unix.  All Unix.  Not just Linux.
> > > > > > Adopted last year.
> > > > > 
> > > > > 	And...how many Unix (other then Linux) are *actually* using it?
> > > > > Any idea on how we can test whether it is being used or not?
> > > > 
> > > > AFAIK some BSD's are now using it - but I am probably wrong.  I gave up on
> > > > BSD in '92.
> > > 
> > > 	Geez, about the time I gave up on Linux and converted to *BSD
> > > *grin*
> > > 
> > No wonder you're so anti-Linux if you stopped using it in '92. I started with
> > 0.99pl13 in November '93. It must have been around v0.2 in '92 and of course
> > it wasn't stable then....
> 
> 	Checking now...oops, you are right:
> 
>    Record created on 03-Jun-93.

Still can't have been much beyond 0.8

At last I understand why Marc is anti-Linux :-)


> 
> 	That was when we created the DNS record for my first company,
> which ran 2/3rds on Linux...so whatever version existed back there.
> 
> 	In Linux's favor here, though...even at that point, if you ran
> Linux on a *non-networked* system (ie. we had some dialup lines into it,
> but not networking)...that thing ran pretty much rock-solid.  It wasn't
> until we actually put some load on her that she wouldn't run for more then
> a day or so at a time...

FAINTS....... :-)


Andrew

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