Martin J. Green wrote :

> Guess we'll either be seeing a move to 2.6 permanently, or slackware will
> hang behind on latest version of glibc for a while.

From the Slackware current Changelog:
"a/glibc-solibs-2.3.6-i486-3.tgz: Recompiled against 2.4.32 and 2.6.15.6
kernel headers. Yes, I have seen that shiny-looking glibc-2.4 release on
ftp.gnu.org, but glibc-2.4 completely drops support for linuxthreads,
and therefore will not support vanilla Linux 2.4.x kernels. I don't
think we're quite ready for that yet around here."
--
Thomas O.

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