Re: [DEB-USER] Re: alternative motd and logo?
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 07:00:59PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> libc5 vs. libc6 (aka glibc 2). Why is libc6 also know as glibc?
> "apt-cache show" seems to indicate that libc5 was *not* GNU.
> True?
Partially correct. libc5 was a fork from GNU libc version 1; a large
part of the effort put into glibc2 was largely in order to merge the
two. libc5 still contained a great deal of GNU code.
Somewhere, a few months back, I saw a rough count of lines of code
attributed to each of a variety of prolific free software authors. I
think Roland McGrath, the author of much of glibc1, a good deal of the
Hurd, and a number of other projects, was top of that list.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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