The glibc switching was worse than ELF, especially when it went wrong. You had a shell, but quite often no new processes would run. Gave you a crash course on how to use echo * instead of ls, and so on.
Fortunately, I'd switched from Slackware to experimenting with Red Hat and Debian during the a.out -> ELF migration. Red Hat failed miserably; Debian upgraded flawlessly. It was of course a long time ago now, things may have changed :-)
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Awesome answer - even just reading "[s]witching manually from a.out to ELF" made me feel kind of queasy.
This is going to stick with me. I've never heard it put quite so bluntly, but, like, yeah.
I've got a Debian 10 experiment going now, but I think long-term Ubuntu or a derivative makes sense for me too.
The glibc switching was worse than ELF, especially when it went wrong. You had a shell, but quite often no new processes would run. Gave you a crash course on how to use
echo *instead ofls, and so on.Fortunately, I'd switched from Slackware to experimenting with Red Hat and Debian during the a.out -> ELF migration. Red Hat failed miserably; Debian upgraded flawlessly. It was of course a long time ago now, things may have changed :-)