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Re: glibc2.2



Cheers,

Thanks for the info.

Best Regards,

Peter Firmstone.



On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Pieter Krul wrote:

> Q89029292 wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 tmeunier@cs.uml.edu wrote:
> > 
> > > Does anyone know if a newer version of glibc is available for sparc?  I think
> > > potato 2.2 came with glibc1.2  I'm trying to get a web browser working.  Mozilla
> > > requires glibc 2.2
> > >
> > > Or...if anyone knows where I could find the version or netscape that supported
> > > linux and sparc, that could work, too.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Tim.
> > 
> > I've a copy of netscape 4.51 for linux sparc, however it is the only on my
> > system program capable of causing watchdog resets and doesn't support
> > 128bit encryption.
> 
> 
> I've been using the 4.5 US.SPARC LINUX 2.0 version for about 2 years
> now.
> 
> It can be found at
> http://home.netscape.com/download/archive/client_archive45x.html#4.5
> 
> When looking at help->about it displays:
> This version supports U.S. security with RSA Public Key
> 	Cryptography, MD2, MD5, RC2-CBC, RC4, DES-CBC,
> 	DES-EDE3-CBC 
> 
> It's quite stable on my Ultra 1 and 5, but you might want to use libc5
> from 
> oldlibs next to glibc anyway.
> 
> I've looked at other browsers, but keep going back to this older thing,
> just 
> because it's 'faster' IMHO.
> 
> Pieter
> 
> 



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