Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1726 mails)

[rachel@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Rachel Greenham)]

Rachel Greenham wrote:
> 
> Lenz Grimmer wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, zentara wrote:
> >
> > > I just received an email from a person who is using the German version
> > > of Suse 6.0. He said that it is glibc based, not glibc2. There is a
> > > difference. Apparently, Suse hasn't gotten around to making a rpm to
> > > upgrade to glibc2.
> > >
> > > If anyone has info on the glibc vs. glibc2 situation and Suse 6.0,
> > > please share it. 6.0 should be arriving shortly and I want to be
> > > prepared to upgrade right away. It should be easy on 6.0 as opposed to
> > > 5.3.
> >
> > Hold it. "glibc" and "glibc2" are two terms for the same thing, which is
> > the new GNU C library (Version 2.x.x). This is what SuSE Linux 6.0 is
> > based on and which is necessary for running StarOffice.
> 
> Umm. Doesn't work then. I had to do major mucking about to get
> StarOffice to work.

Actually, StarOffice has stopped working again, without any further
changes to my setup. Crashes when you try to create a new document.
Basically unstable IMHO.


-- 
Rachel
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