Because there's no real problem with having a 1.5MB glibc on a server or desktop OS, and glibc is quite a lot more featureful than the alternatives. Many lack l

Because there's no real problem with having a 1.5MB glibc on a server or desktop OS, and glibc is quite a lot more featureful than the alternatives. Many lack locale support, nsswitch, backwards binary compatibility and various minor bits and pieces that breaks existing applications.