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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] i386 ISO
  • Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 13:52:22 +0100

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 08:37:06PM +0100, Andrew ruskie Levstik wrote:
> I still use 2.6 without NPTL... why... cause the thing
> never worked proper on my box... the system
> keept crashing all the time.. and I was getting massive
> segfaults... of course that was more than 6
> months ago but still I'm skeptic about NPTL still so imho
> we provide without NPTL but if ppl want it
> they can still recast it... remember a fresh install needs
> to work on any box... after customizing the
> box then it's anyone's game.

I agree with that. It's no problem switching a linuxthreads system to
NPTL, but it is almost impossible to switch from NPTL back, as binaries
compiled with NPTL won't work anymore, so the ISO shouldn't use NPTL.

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Arwed v. Merkatz Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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