Michael Katz wrote:
Why does debian stable use glibc 2.2.5 which is over 3 years old? Using such old technology makes a real pain in the butt for your users, especially the app writers that need to spend lots of extra resources trying to support this old stuff. it seems that stability to debian is more of an acronym for old.
This topic comes up very frequently on this list. I wrote an FAQ on this (well, actually on choosing the proper Debian distribution). It is hosted at
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/debian_choosing_distribution.htmlIn particular, I would like to point you to the question (8). Hopefully that answers your question.
raju