uClibc is a modern, stable, highly compatible replacement for Glibc. uClibc is developed for embedded systems and is therefore intended to be complete but lightweight. Trade-offs between speed and size were decided in the direction of size.

Therefore uClibc libraries are significant smaller than the comparing glibc libraries. This results in more than 100kb free space on the current Bering-uClibc image, even with additional features compared to the original Bering distribution.

The uClibc libraries are actively developed and maintained, including bugfixes, security-related fixes and new features as well.

With Bering-uClibc v 2.0 IPv6 support is available.

Bering-uClibc v 2.3.x is based on Linux kernel version 2.4.31.

Bering-uClibc v 2.4.x is based on Linux kernel version 2.4.32.