This week at LWN: EGLIBC: Not a fork, but a glibc distribution

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jun 1, 2009 6:16 AM EDT
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The GNU C library (or glibc) is a fundamental component of the Linux operating system. It provides much of the user-space interface to the kernel as well as a sizable portion of the utility routines that are used by virtually all Linux applications. A variant of glibc—known as Embedded glibc or EGLIBC—is not very well known outside of the embedded space, but that looks to be changing with the announcement that Debian will switch from glibc to EGLIBC.

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