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  1. uClibc-ng - a small C Library for Linux
  2. uClibc-ng (aka µClibc-ng/pronounced yew-see-lib-see-next-generation) is a C
  3. library for developing embedded Linux systems. It is much smaller than the GNU
  4. C Library, but nearly all applications supported by glibc also work perfectly
  5. with uClibc-ng.
  6. uClibc-ng is a spin-off of uClibc from http://www.uclibc.org
  7. from Erik Andersen and others.
  8. Porting applications from glibc to uClibc-ng typically involves just
  9. recompiling the source code. uClibc-ng even supports shared libraries and
  10. threading. It currently runs on standard Linux and MMU-less (also
  11. known as µClinux) systems with support for ARC, ARM, Blackfin, i386, M68K/Coldfire
  12. MIPS, MIPS64, PowerPC, SH, Sparc, X86_64 and XTENSA processors.
  13. If you are building an embedded Linux system and you find that
  14. glibc is eating up too much space, you should consider using
  15. uClibc-ng. If you are building a huge fileserver with 12 Terabytes
  16. of storage, then using glibc may make more sense. Unless, for
  17. example, that 12 Terabytes will be Network Attached Storage and
  18. you plan to burn Linux into the system's firmware...
  19. uClibc-ng is maintained by Waldemar Brodkorb and is licensed under the
  20. GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE. This license allows you to
  21. make closed source commercial applications using an unmodified
  22. version of uClibc-ng. You do not need to give away all your source code just
  23. because you use uClibc-ng and/or run on Linux. You should, however,
  24. carefuly review the license and make certain you understand and
  25. abide by it strictly.
  26. For installation instructions, see the file INSTALL.
  27. uClibc-ng strives to be standards compliant, which means that most
  28. documentation written for SuSv3, or for glibc also applies to
  29. uClibc-ng functions. However, many GNU extensions are not supported
  30. because they have not been ported, or more importantly, would
  31. increase the size of uClibc-ng disproportional to the added
  32. functionality.
  33. Additional information can be found at http://www.uclibc-ng.org/.
  34. uClibc-ng may be freely modified and distributed under the terms of
  35. the GNU Lesser General Public License, which can be found in the
  36. file COPYING.
  37. And most of all, be sure to have some fun! :-)
  38. -Waldemar