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 at 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-fe8a0be91ee3e7dea812e8694491e1dde5b75e6d 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? > > > > 1. Use VirtualBox. XP Host & > > CentOS-3 guest. XP is EOL very soon too. > > 2. 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 Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100413/e02a1bc8/attachment-0003.sig>