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Message from Steven
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> 1. What is the newest version of the BL. 

The latest version of BasicLinux is 3.50 (loop version).
The ramdisk version is older (3.40).

> 2. I think that BL3 is based on glibc-2.1

BL2 has a Slackware 7.1 foundation (glibc-2.1).
BL3 has a static busybox foundation and comes 
with some libc5 libraries and binaries.

> can we replace glibc with uclibc?

There's no glibc in BL3, but you can replace the
libc5 stuff if you want.  Simply delete everything 
in the /lib directory and then delete the binaries 
that depend on those binaries (use ldd to find 
which binaries are dependent).  That will leave 
you plenty of room to add your uClibc libraries 
and binaries.

Note:  unlike most versions of Linux, BL3 still boots
when the /lib directory is empty.  The browser (links)
also works and so does the editor.  Xvesa also works
without libraries (but the wm doesn't).

Cheers,
Steven