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Re:VSCode stopped supporting an old glibc version and near E... by thesuperbigfrog on Friday February 02, 2024 @07:42AM (#39227932)
Summary of the issue:

There will be a significant number of Linux machines that will be unable to Visual Studio Code (VS Code) v1.86 (the latest version).

This is due to VS Code v1.86 requiring glibc >= 2.28.

Impacted Linux distros include Ubuntu 18.04, RHEL7 / CentOS 7, Amazon Linux 2, and more.

Impacted users include many researchers in medicine / government / academia, scientific equipment, Amazon EC2 customers, and others.

Some potential workarounds posted in the GitHub thread, but no definitive support path for those who are unable to upgrade at this time.

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Re:VSCode stopped supporting an old glibc version and near E... by TheLoafOfBread on Friday February 02, 2024 @12:36PM (#39231566)
> Amazon EC2 customers

They can easily start an instance with fresher version of Linux or startup Windows. Anyway who really develops on an EC2 instance? That sounds very expensive to get such instance which is actually able to run VScode in some sane speed.

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