Quoting Ciaran O'Riordan (ciaran at fsfe.org):
> Having read about the libc5 fork of glibc in Rick Moen's "Fear of
> Forking" essay, I went looking for more info about this fork since it
> seems to have healed so well that no one ever talks about it anymore.
> It also seems strangely underdocumented for a 10 year old event in a
> community that values putting everything about everything online.
>>http://fsfe.org/en/fellows/ciaran/ciaran_s_free_software_notes/history_of_glibc_and_linux_libc
Ciarán --
Nicely done historical write-up. Thank you.
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