# [2021.04.21] Fighting CentOS

I first learnt about the existence of CentOS when I became interested
in Big Data. Then there was no Hadoop distribution for Ubuntu, so I
installed CentOS on my home PC. Now CentOS manages the two fattest
servers in our lab. It's CentOS 7, first released seven years ago, oh
yeah. For compiling some, code I need `glibc` of a higher version
than that available, and it looks like there is no way to get it
without being `root`. `glibc` lives too near to the kernel to be
built from my $HOME.