Running new applications on old glibc

(lightofdawn.org)

2 points | by meatjuice 3 hours ago

1 comments

  • meatjuice 3 hours ago
    It's posted on HN several times before but I found it still relevant.

    I have access to my university's old Linux server that has glibc 2.8 and gcc 4.1.3 installed, and most of the cli tools don't work unless they provide musl binaries (or AppImage).