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Re:Building a “real” Linux distro by zzzcpan on Friday May 05, 2017 @01:30PM (#14275183)
Statically linked binaries deploy easily, deploy faster, start faster, don't depend on libraries or even on a filesystem hierarchy standard, because they don't require hardcoded elf interpreter and so on.
Re:Building a “real” Linux distro by kasabali on Thursday May 11, 2017 @05:14AM (#14314765)
these are very desirable properties for binaries that are meant to be deployed. makes no sense whatsoever for distribution binaries though.