On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 11:38:57PM +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > So it will be a step behind GLIBC, Do you have any facts to back up this strong assertion? > and it is oriented to embedded systems. > NO gain for Fedora. Appliances are a sort of embedded system: small memory footprint, limited single use, purpose built. At the same time, Fedora could be useful in other markets like netbooks, which have similarities to embedded systems, such as small memory or disk footprints, and ARM chips. glibc as it stands has a large disk footprint on x86-64 systems, because of particular decisions made by the glibc developers: http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/why-minimal-is-225-mb/ Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
