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Subject: Re: Native & Linux ELF support finally there...
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Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 22:16:24 -1000 (HST)
From: "David Langford" <root@dihelix.com>
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From: "David Langford" <langfod@dihelix.com>
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Most cool. Thanks for the work.

Now a side note: for those of us with our heads in the closet are there
any pointers to the wonders of why Elf exists? i.e. what makes it
so great that I should bow down before it?

Thanks,
David Langford
langfod@dihelix.com

>Hi gang..
>
>
>After a hectic week, Peter Wemm and I are proud to announce that
>FreeBSD-current now has ELF support. This means that we are now
>able to run native FreeBSD ELF binaries (generated with John
>Polstras Elfkit-1.0.1) and Linux ELF binaries, and yes Linux
>QUAKE finally works, at least as far as Peter & I has tried it
>(Hey I dont have time to play)
>
>Have fun !!
>
>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>Soren Schmidt             (sos@FreeBSD.org)             FreeBSD Core Team
>               So much code to hack -- so little time.
>