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No; at the moment we are in beta and this not yet available. We have been experimenting with various strategies to ensure rapid turnaround on security-related issues.


Then I suggest not making this claim unless you solve the problem. Security patches are notoriously difficult to implement and test, one needs to recreate the attacking environment.

But if you do solve it, kudos to you. Your solution will have companies come knocking at your door day and night. It's going to be worth a lot more than the distro.


Then don't say that on the page, now I don't believe anything else on the site


Are other claims also not true and just ideas that might or might not be actually be implemented at some time in the future?


Our aim is to offer a non-glibc Linux platform for supercomputing environments. This involves a tremendous amount of work to be taken seriously and we are currently in the earliest stage of this. Follow our blog (https://blog.adelielinux.org/) for updates in this space.


What are the benefits of a non-glibc supercomputing environment?


Diversity in the ecosystem, possible reduction in memory footprint, ability to discover and fix issues in upstream projects that musl-based distros don't currently package, motivation to support CUDA (and other) runtimes that explicitly target glibc, unlock possible sources of funding to pay developers to work on these areas.

The ability to audit a smaller codebase could be compelling for some sensitive environments.

There is not an urgent or immediate problem with glibc in the HPC space, per se.


Do you have any benchmarks etc. that compare performance of HPC workloads on glibc vs musl?


In progress. We have access to an ARM-based supercomputer and are actively collaborating with scientists who have access to x86_64 systems. It will be a while before we have results to publish. We need to be diligent in our testing methodologies.


Have you published your testing methodologies?


You know the quickest way to not be taken seriously? Lying on your website.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38891721#38893535


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