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Aurélien Jarno
Personal blog · blog.aurel32.netsystemsprogramming
Aurélien Jarno's personal blog at blog.aurel32.net covers systems and programming. Since 2009, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Debian is switching to EGLIBC”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post when discussing glibc's maintainers and forking. Commenters cite its list of reasons for forking glibc, including its 'More friendly upstream' examples involving Ulrich Drepper.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Debian is switching to EGLIBC3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-05-06
- Goodbye Debian GNU/KFreeBSD2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-15
What Hacker News says?
In fact in the list of reasons here http://blog.aurel32.net/?p=47 has a "More friendly upstream" list item which gives four "as opposed to" examples, all of which involve Drepper.
Comment linking /?p=47
on “Gilbc a bug and a Joke”Submitted Debian is switching back to GLIBC as a story · 179 points
HN discussion> it has allowed people like Ulrich Drepper to dig out his private little Hell with glibc and torment anyone who begs a moment of his time. It isn't patronage system that's the problem, it's the people. Anyway, just fork his work (eg. http://blog.aurel32.net/?p=47 )
Comment linking /?p=47
on “25 years of GNU - support software freedom”Submitted Debian is switching to EGLIBC as a story · 47 points
HN discussionI think you must be unfamiliar with the glibc maintainers during that period. They were hostile to outside contributions, to put it mildly. The only way to fix it would have been to make a fork. Which is what actually happened in the end with eglibc. A lot of the big distros dropped glibc and switched to eglibc because they didn't want to deal with the glibc maintainers and their refusal to fix things anymore: http:…
Comment linking /47
on “Why do you want libc to be 5 times slower than other libraries?”Submitted Welcome Debian riscv64 as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Goodbye Debian GNU/KFreeBSD as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Goodbye Debian GNU/KFreeBSD as a story · 1 points
HN discussion