Hi,
Since Kent West has kindly clarified what I wanted to say, I'm not going to
repeat my main point. Only the following:
Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com> wrote in message news:<2l4QK-4ZJ-3@gated-at.bofh.it>...
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about particular software (nptl thread library) not being available
for woody: why not install it yourself? just because it's not available
as debian package does not mean you cannot install it. I can imagine
that this might not be possible in all cases but in general this
approach solves lot of portability problems (from one linux
distro/version to another linux or even unix distro/version).
In fact I looked at the homepage of nptl. That was kind of scary to me :)
The page says that you need to use a rather new kernel and libc. So, the
installation of nptl would mean: Back up everything, learn how to build kernel
since I've never done that before (my machine is dual-processor, and my kernel was
built by another guy), learn how large an impact upgrading libc will mean, and
so on. If I had a leisure few days, I might try. But, if I had a few days off,
I'd rather spend the time away from the computer screen! I've had too much these
days in front of my workstation.