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Comment Static linking (Score 1) 3

by jpc on Thursday March 20, 2014 @05:22AM (#46531929) Attached to: musl libc hits 1.0 milestone

And it supports static linking properly, unlike glibc which requires some stuff to still be dynamically linked. So if you want a static binary you can distribute to any Linux version it is a great choice. Plus even dynamically linked it has a single shared library and does not need loads of support files (locales etc) that glibc does. Very useful.

Submission + - musl libc hits 1.0 milestone 3

Submitted by dalias on Thursday March 20, 2014 @05:07AM

dalias writes: The musl libc project has released version 1.0, the result of three years of development and testing. Musl is a lightweight, fast, simple, MIT-licensed, correctness-oriented alternative to the GNU C library (glibc), uClibc, or Android's Bionic. At this point musl provides all mandatory C99 and POSIX interfaces (plus a lot of widely-used extensions), and well over 5000 packages are known to build successfully against musl.

Several options are available for trying musl. Compiler toolchains are available from the musl-cross project, and several new musl-based Linux distributions are already available (Sabotage and Snowflake, among others). Some well-established distributions including OpenWRT and Gentoo are in the process of adding musl-based variants, and others (Aboriginal, Alpine, Bedrock, Dragora) are adopting musl as their default libc.

Comment Re:What is Flickr's business model? (Score 1) 210

by jpc on Wednesday June 14, 2006 @01:05PM (#15533360) Attached to: Screenshot Accounts 'Delisted' on Flickr

Not sure they really see themselves as a photo site for the masses. Ok the grannies and babies are there but most of the people who make it a community rather than a posting site (and the subscribers) are actually interested in photography per se. Check out the discussions on black and white filom development, HDR, vintage cameras and so on.

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