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From: Tobias Klausmann <klausman@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] heads up: glibc-2.20 will require >=linux-2.6.32
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 09:59:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140806075940.GA51819@skade.schwarzvogel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1839476.CY3ocDWS18@vapier>

Hi! 

On Sun, 03 Aug 2014, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> upstream glibc has dropped support for older Linux kernels.  your choices:
>  - upgrade your kernel
>  - switch to a different C library
>  - stick with glibc-2.19 for a while

Also note that 2.6.32 is the oldest longterm kernel. If you use
something older, you haven't gotten any security updates at all
for a while.

Regards,
Tobias

-- 
Sent from aboard the Culture ship
	ROU (Killer-class) Revisionist


      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-08-06  7:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-03 13:16 [gentoo-dev] heads up: glibc-2.20 will require >=linux-2.6.32 Mike Frysinger
2014-08-03 13:19 ` Samuli Suominen
2014-08-06  7:59 ` Tobias Klausmann [this message]

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