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diff --git a/docs/uclibc.org/index.html b/docs/uclibc.org/index.html index 63035e1a9..62eadd1d5 100644 --- a/docs/uclibc.org/index.html +++ b/docs/uclibc.org/index.html @@ -37,23 +37,25 @@ </TD></TR> <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0"> -<a href="http://www.uclibc.org">uClibc</a> (aka µClibc/pronounced yew-see-lib-see) -is a C library for embedded Linux systems. It is much smaller then the -<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html">GNU C Library</a>, but -nearly all applications supported by glibc also work perfectly with uClibc. -Porting applications from glibc to uClibc typically involves just recompiling -the source code. uClibc supports standard Linux architectures (such as x86, -strongArm, and powerpc), and also supports +<a href="http://www.uclibc.org">uClibc</a> (aka µClibc/pronounced +yew-see-lib-see) is a C library for developing embedded Linux systems. +It is much smaller then the +<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html">GNU C Library</a>, +but nearly all applications supported by glibc also work perfectly with +uClibc. Porting applications from glibc to uClibc typically involves +just recompiling the source code. uClibc even supports shared libraries +and threading. It currently runs on standard Linux and <a href="http://www.uclinux.org">MMU-less (also known as µClinux)</a> -architectures such as the Coldfire, Dragonball, and ARM7TDMI micro-controllers. +systems with support for ARM, i386, h8300, m68k, mips, mipsel, PowerPC, +SH, SPARC, and v850 processors. +<p> + If you are building an embedded Linux system and you find that glibc is eating up too much space, you should consider using uClibc. If you are building a huge fileserver with 12 Terabytes of storage, then using glibc may be a better choice... - <p> -<p> uClibc is maintained by <a href="http://www.codepoet.org/andersen/erik/erik.html">Erik Andersen</a> and is licensed under the @@ -130,12 +132,12 @@ To subscribe, go and visit CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of uClibc 0.9.11. This release is primarily focused on fixing the issues that have turned up since the last release. Several bugs in the gcc wrapper - have been fixed, allowing things like iproute2 and XFree86 to link properly - now. Large file support has been improved, and a thread locking bug was + have been fixed, allowing applications such as iproute2 and XFree86 to link properly. + Large file support has been improved, and a thread locking bug was fixed that could cause s*printf calls to deadlock when threading was enabled. Several bugs were also fixed with the powerpc, h8300, m68k, sparc, and mips architecture support. Many additional applications now - compile and run perfectly and have been added to the end of the <a + compile and run perfectly and have been added to the <a href="uClibc-apps.html">working applications list</a> . <p> The <a href="downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a> |