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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Re: BL3 with libc6?--BL3-enhanced?
  • Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 00:02:35 +0000 (UTC)

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

James Miller wrote:

libc.so.5 -> libc.so.5.4.44 (BL3 library)
libc.so.6 -> libc-2.2.5.so (SW81 library)

This is really interesting, Sindi. "BL3-enhanced"?
Please let us know how things work for you. I'm
guessing you might run into Xvesa problems like Steven
was having (certain apps just seem to not want to run
under it).

If you're going to upgrade to more powerful libraries,
you might as well upgrade to a more powerful Xserver.
That will avoid all those Xvesa incompatibility issues.
Xvesa is really just a mini-Xserver with the ability
to run on a wide range of video cards. You will get
a better X display (and far fewer incompatibilities)
by using the Xserver designed specifically for your
video card.

Apart from the loadlin/memory problems (which FreeDOS does not actually seem to cause) Xvesa is quite usable now, if you don't mind having to use more than 8-bit color for some programs (links2, Abiword), and it is a whole lot easier to set up (thanks to Steven) than any X server. I don't use X often enough to care about frequencies being optimized for my card and monitor.


It could really enhance BL3 if newer versions of Opera
would run under it.

There is one advantage to Opera 6 - it will run at any color depth including even mono (but without graphics in mono). But 7 crashes a lot less often than 6.

I will try WP8 on BL3 - I think that is all it requires and it might not even run on BL2 without adding the older library.


I'm more interested in Firebird. I've got an old version
of Firebird running on BL2 (using the same library upgrade
that Sindi used on BL3). It would be great to see Firebird
running on BL3.

Please try it and let us know. Do the newer versions of Firebird (or its latest incarnation by some other name) need an even newer library?

Also interesting how compiling will work.

The glibc2 compiling libraries are about ten times larger
than the libc5 ones, so I would recommend using libc5 for
personal compiling. However, if you intend downloading

Yes, that is why I am so interested in this possibility.

sourcecode and compiling it, you will find that some of
it (particularly the fancier stuff) expects capabilities
not available in libc5. To compile such sourcecode, you
will need the full glibc2 libraries (and a bigger HD :-)

Which programs that you know of can only be compiled on the later library?

I plan to keep both BL3 and BL2 on my hard drive and use BL3 for normal use in a smaller partition, and reserve BL2 for storing data that I don't need too often, and compiling with the later library. BL loads significantly faster in a smaller partition. On a laptop BL3 ought to be enough, without any compiling packages at all. Delilinux links2 for computers with less than 15-bit video (SVGAlib). The later pppd for external modems.

I think you said it was possible to compile with BL3 using source code on a BL2 partition but please remind me how to do this. I would like to store the source code out of the way.

I have about 40MB of files (including the whole 2.2.5 solibs with documentation) in BL3 now - two versions of lynx, links-0.90 and links2, abiword (a biggie), sc, mc, sound, mutt, icewm, kermit, antiword. (No games added, or sqlite until I learn to use it). This is not including compiler files (another 15MB?). This will fit really comfortably on a laptop with a 115MB hard drive, along with some useful DOS files (even a wordprocessor).

I have not yet added telnetd or ftp or http daemons but can't think of much else that I would want to add, other than Opera and ghostscript (hopefully with only one font if I can figure out how) and xpdf. Another 20MB at most.

A few years ago we put together 10 250MB computers for someone to use to teach kids wordprocessing. I wish they had been able to wait.

Cheers,
Steven

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