Ask Linux.com: Specialty distros, startup scripts, and a whole new forum
Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:00:00 GMT
In this week's junket through the latest and greatest from the Linux.com forums, we look at Linux distributions for security testing, gaming, and the visually impaired, writing your own startup scripts, and our new forum for job seekers.
Hi,
My server is Centos 6 i686.
Is it possible get an openssl download from this site
"https://www.openssl.org/source/" (which is used for 64 bit platforms)
and use it on 32 bit platforms also?
Thx,
Aigini (5 Replies)
I have a question. Actually I want to make two scripts, one is startup.sh and other is stopscript.sh
so for example, I have 5 servers.
Each server has two instances :-
abc111 - Masters
-cra4
abc222 -middle tear
-cra
abc333 -middle tear
-cra1
abc444 -middle tear
... (1 Reply)
Guys, I was planning to install Ubuntu, Fedora and Backtrack on the same computer (along with Windows 7). My Specifications are:
2.67 Core i5
4GB DDR3 RAM
500 GB HDD
I have a system running Windows 7 with 3 partitions (240, 130, 130) GBs. And I was planning on freeing out 30GB of space and... (3 Replies)
I 've a question regarding which points should be considered to compare 2 different linux distros say RedHat & Ubuntu. for a production environment
non-db applications ... any help will be appreciated .. (1 Reply)
Hi all
We have HP UX 11.23 installed on 4 RISC servers (2 oracle databases, 2 Oracle App Servers) , we are in a construction period , so the power failure may happen more than once a day.
I need to learn how to create an automatic startup services as in Windows, if we know that the services... (5 Replies)
Hi,
This will be my first time to install 5 distros in one box, the ff. are:
openSUSE 11, openSUSE11.1, Ubuntu 8.04, Ubuntu 8.10, Fedora 10
Now, I'm confused how would I partitioned my hard disk with a capacity of 80Gb where there is only one swap and no idea yet how to play with boot... (2 Replies)
i`m trying to fidnd a distro that is good for m but it is not that easy i discovered, so if anybody please can give som tips i would been very happy
thank you for reading:) (3 Replies)
Is it possible to use Other Distro's ( i.e Debian's or Ubuntu's ) repositories in Fedora?
If not then what should be done to make common repositories for all linux distros.
regards,
Arun Maurya (2 Replies)
LIBC(7) Linux Programmer's Manual LIBC(7)NAME
libc - Overview of standard C libraries on Linux
DESCRIPTION
The term "libc" is commonly used as a shorthand for the "standard C library", a library of standard functions that can be used by all C
programs (and sometimes by programs in other languages). Because of some history (see below), use of the term "libc" to refer to the stan-
dard C library is somewhat ambiguous on Linux.
glibc
By far the most widely used C library on Linux is the GNU C Library (http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/), often referred to as glibc. This
is the C library that is nowadays used in all major Linux distributions. It is also the C library whose details are documented in the rel-
evant pages of the man-pages project (primarily in Section 3 of the manual). Documentation of glibc is also available in the glibc manual,
available via the command info libc. Release 1.0 of glibc was made in September 1992. (There were earlier 0.x releases.) The next major
release of glibc was 2.0, at the beginning of 1997.
The pathname /lib/libc.so.6 (or something similar) is normally a symbolic link that points to the location of the glibc library, and exe-
cuting this pathname will cause glibc to display various information about the version installed on your system.
Linux libc
In the early to mid 1990s, there was for a while Linux libc, a fork of glibc 1.x created by Linux developers who felt that glibc develop-
ment at the time was not sufficing for the needs of Linux. Often, this library was referred to (ambiguously) as just "libc". Linux libc
released major versions 2, 3, 4, and 5 (as well as many minor versions of those releases). For a while, Linux libc was the standard C
library in many Linux distributions. However, notwithstanding the original motivations of the Linux libc effort, by the time glibc 2.0 was
released, it was clearly superior to Linux libc, and all major Linux distributions that had been using Linux libc soon switched back to
glibc. (Since this switch occurred over a decade ago, man-pages no longer takes care to document Linux libc details. Nevertheless, the
history is visible in vestiges of information about Linux libc that remain in some manual pages, in particular, references to libc4 and
libc5.)
Other C libraries
There are various other less widely used C libraries for Linux. These libraries are generally smaller than glibc, both in terms of fea-
tures and memory footprint, and often intended for building small binaries, perhaps targeted at development for embedded Linux systems.
Among such libraries are uClibc (http://www.uclibc.org/) and dietlibc (http://www.fefe.de/dietlibc/). Details of these libraries are gen-
erally not covered by the man-pages project.
SEE ALSO syscalls(2), feature_test_macros(7), man-pages(7), standards(7)COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.25 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
Linux 2009-01-13 LIBC(7)