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From: Tobias Klausmann <klausman@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] heads up: glibc-2.20 will require >=linux-2.6.32
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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

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