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Hi,

Yes as cannon says you can get RedHat 6.1 for about $20 at your
newsagents. Its called the APC Linux Pocket Book I think. This also comes
with Caldera Openlinux (2.3).

Yes the upgrade to glibc affects almost everything. There is a howto on
how to do it though so you may want to look at it.

With respect to Caldera, it sounds like it may not the right distro for
you because its aimed mainly at the newbie market. Thus an install
without X is practically impossible, and use as a server system is also
more difficult than RedHat. However use as a desktop box is good. Also on
installation it may not pick up your network card so you will may have to
do this manually, and you can forget about scanning your hard disk for
badblocks at install time. (I have to coz of crap hardware).

I have not used many other distro's but I want to try Slackware, Suse and
Debian in that order.

Moz

Luke wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for your input,
> Yes, I am using the IBM package, you're right.
>
> I was tossing up whether to upgrade the kernel and
> install glibc2.0,
> but will that impact on other stuff that I have on my system?
>
> I don't have a lot of applications that I use on the linux box,
> I use it mainly for textprocessing with vi. I do have X installed with
> an fvwm windows manager and I am running SAMBA.
> I have a network with 3 windows98 machines and 2 linux boxes.
>
> If upgrading to glibc2.0 does impact on the rest of the system, I
> might have to consider your suggestion or upgrade the complete system
> (actually I don't have another $65 for a Redhat CD at the moment). I
> thought I might try a different distributor as I feel that Redhat are
> becoming a bit too commercial for my liking. I was thinking Caldera,
> what do you think?
>
> L
>
> "moz" <moz@iinet.net.au> wrote in message
> news:38CD7A5C.89DF77D4@iinet.net.au...
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I run the Sun jdk_v117a on Redhat 5.2, kernel 2.0.36 which also used
> to
> > run on redhat 5.1(2.0.34). I have has no problems with this (except
> its
> > slow). I know that the IBM jdk requires libc6(glibc 2), thus only
> runs
> > on Redhat 6.0+, I am pretty sure that this is the case with the
> > Blackdown 2.0+ jdk's as well.
> >
> > Ok the reason for all these library problems is the switch from
> libc5 to
> > glibc2.0. This makes binaries from Redhat 5.2- incompatible with
> Redhat
> > 6.0+. (If your using RedHat 5.0 you probably know most of the
> details,
> > but it was probably linux's biggest blunder).
> >
> > So you either have to get the sun jdk (If you can't find it I have a
> > copy, try rufus.w3.org and look for libc5 contribs for RedHat) or
> > upgrade to a Linux system that uses glibc 2.0. (I think all of the
> > recent ones are).
> >
> > Hope this helps
> >
> > Moz
> > PS I assume you are using the IBM compiler and interpreter?
> >