[TriLUG] Fwd: Organize a Debian Birthday party in your city

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2012, Bill Farrow wrote:

> and I made it through the glibc transition in 1998. 
> Whew.

Congratulationns. I didn't. I followed the pages and pages 
of instructions, which didn't tell you what you were doing 
or how to check if you were doing it right. You just had to 
hope that you hadn't made a mistake. I couldn't see why the 
transition had to be that complicated, or so badly explained 
(I still don't see it).

I only had one machine and after following the instructions, 
it wouldn't complete booting. I don't know what I did for 
backups back then. It would have had to be floppies. I 
restored and stayed with libc-5 for quite a while. I needed 
a working machine more than I needed glibc.

Joe
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