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AlmaLinux Picking Up glibc Patch Ahead Of RHEL To Rescue VFX Houdini Users
While Red Hat Enterprise Linux is very popular with the VFX crowd, those relying on the SideFX Houdini 3D animation software are running into a bit of a pickle if trying to use RHEL 9.4
While Red Hat Enterprise Linux is very popular with the VFX crowd, those relying on the SideFX Houdini 3D animation software are running into a bit of a pickle if trying to use RHEL 9.4. There's a glibc bug causing random crashes for Houdini that Red Hat has been slow to pickup but is now going to be shipped by AlmaLinux early to satisfy VFX users. To protect those needing to use Houdini in production, AlmaLinux is steaming ahead and working to ship the glibc fix from CentOS Stream 9 even without it being picked up yet by RHEL.
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