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Abandoning Scientific Linux Was a Mistake

77 points · 56 comments · elashri

  1. dist-epoch · · focus · HN ↗
    > If one site builds against one version of glibc, another uses something slightly different

    The architecture problem that keeps on giving.

    It's amazing how much damage this one brain dead decision, to make it basically impossible to use different glibc versions on one instance, made to Linux. Containers in a way are another solution to this problem, even if they were created to solve a different one (optimal resource usage).

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