On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:16:22AM -0400, Kwan Lowe wrote:
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Prashant Saxena animator333@yahoo.com wrote:
The solution is to use as much as old libc as you can to compile the bootloader. It seems CentOS-3 is based on glibc 2.3, which is pretty old and if I compile and do other stuff of on CentOS-3, it'll do the job and hopefully covers almost all the end user base that I am expecting will use the app. It may possible that I might face some issues with my requirements mentioned below but I have no practical idea about them.
CentOS 3 is ancient and I don't even think is supported by the upstream vendor any longer. If you absolutely need that old version of glibc then using CentOS 4.x (updated) will still give you glibc-2.3.4.
http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-fe8a0be91ee3e7dea812e8694491e1dde5b7... Frequently Asked Questions about CentOS in general 19. What is the support ''end of life'' for each CentOS release?
For a few more month, CentOS-3 is still supported ;)
As I mentioned before that I am new to linux and I always prefer to use VirtualBox, when ever I try any new distribution.
In short these are my requirements and I would like to know whether CentOS-3 is the right choice for me or not?
- Use VirtualBox. XP Host &
CentOS-3 guest.
XP is EOL very soon too.
- python 2.6.4
not on CentOS-3 (python 2.2) CentOS-4 (python 2.3) or CentOS-5 (python 2.4) ... you can browse the centos mirrors for each version if you want ot know what is included in each version.
See also http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories
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