Attention GNU/Linux enthusiasts (others please suck the testicles of an ugly
goat).

Beyond the kernel, the most important software is the GNU C Library, GLIBC.

Indeed GLIBC is the core of any GNU/Linux system, being an interface to the
kernel for ALL other software.

A new version of GLIBC is here: 2.40.

For best performance -- which includes performance of everything else --
the user MUST build from source. Distro versions of GLIBC are crippled
with security and generic disposition, i.e. they are not optimized for any
specific hardware.

Keep up your GNU/Linux cred. Build GLIBC.

On Sun, 04 Aug 2024 16:16:33 +0000, Diego Garcia wrote:

>
> For best performance -- which includes performance of everything else --
> the user MUST build from source.
>

Hey! Mutherfucker. You think I'm dreamin'? Check this from the GLIBC
"INSTALL" file:

'--enable-kernel=VERSION'
This option is currently only useful on GNU/Linux systems. The
VERSION parameter should have the form X.Y.Z and describes the
smallest version of the Linux kernel the generated library is
expected to support. The higher the VERSION number is, the less
compatibility code is added, and the faster the code gets.

Distro versions have to set this WAY BACK -- and this option is only
the beginning of the optimization improvements.

Le 04-08-2024, Diego Garcia <dg@chaos.rocks> a écrit :
>
> Beyond the kernel, the most important software is the GNU C Library, GLIBC.

Not exactly.

First, it's not a software. I wouldn't be that surprised to see you
don't know what a library is, but I was expecting you to know it. You
are really full of surprises. But that's not that really important. The
second point if far more important.

Second, it's not mandatory. And that's why I'm answering your message.
When all of your messages are against bloated softwares, which are not
always bloated but only beyond your minimal capacities, why are you
using glibc?

You could use musl instead. It's easy, you install Alpine instead of
Gentoo. It's light. It's running Linux. It's running light versions of
the softwares. It's not running systemd. As the containers are difficult
with python, I believe you could avoid having python on your computer.

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Le 04-08-2024, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> a écrit :
> On 04 Aug 2024 17:27:02 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
>
>> You could use musl instead.
>
> Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
>
> Only a totally incompetent idiot, like YOU, would ever use musl
> or any other library. Glibc is the absolute best.

Alpine is faster than you'll never been able to hope with Gentoo. You
can pretend you are optimizing, the best optimization you can attain is
by luck. And it will be slower than a default Alpine installation.

As always, you pretend things, but you are unable to support your
claims.

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On 04 Aug 2024 19:57:25 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

>
> Alpine is faster
>

From Wikipedia:

"For security, Alpine compiles all user-space binaries as position-independent
executables with stack-smashing protection"

Ha, ha, ha, ha! Alpine is crippled with security garbage.

>
> As always, you pretend things, but you are unable to support your
> claims.
>

YOU don't give any support for your claims either.

So shut the fuck up.

Glibc has more accurate math functions than musl and it is math
accuracy that concerns me the most.

YOU don't perform mathematics of any kind. YOU are an innumerate
idiot.

Diego Garcia <dg@chaos.rocks> wrote:

>Attention GNU/Linux enthusiasts (others please suck the testicles of an ugly
>goat).
>
>Beyond the kernel, the most important software is the GNU C Library, GLIBC.
>
>Indeed GLIBC is the core of any GNU/Linux system, being an interface to the
>kernel for ALL other software.
>
>A new version of GLIBC is here: 2.40.
>
>For best performance -- which includes performance of everything else --
>the user MUST build from source. Distro versions of GLIBC are crippled
>with security and generic disposition, i.e. they are not optimized for any
>specific hardware.
>
>Keep up your GNU/Linux cred. Build GLIBC.

Larry, you're a joke. No one actually cares about this crap. I admit
that once one leaves Mint it gets harder to use Linux compared to
Winblows, but it's worth the effort, learning something different
that's not constant bloat.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote:
>On 04 Aug 2024 17:27:02 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
>> Le 04-08-2024, Diego Garcia <dg@chaos.rocks> a écrit :
>>>
>>> Beyond the kernel, the most important software is the GNU C Library, GLIBC.
>>
>> Not exactly.
>
>Nope. EXACTLY.
>
>A C library provides the ONLY software (i.e. not assembly) interface
>between the kernel and ALL other software -- that's ALL other software --
>python, perl, whatever all goes through glibc.

I tend to support your point, that these libraries are very
fundamental code.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

Joel wrote:
> once one leaves Mint it gets harder to use Linux compared to
> Winblows
>
>
You call in "Winblows" but in reality you also blow
and take it up the ass, so is "Winblows" an insult
or a compliment?

https://postimg.cc/xkKQPwfT

On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 09:24:56 -0400, Casa de Masa wrote:

> You call in "Winblows" ...

“Dimdows”, from “Mightgrowsoft”.