Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 16:31:57 -0800 (PST) From: "K. Marsh" <durang@u.washington.edu> To: "Michael A. Endsley" <al7oj@customcpu.com> Cc: Freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: statically/dynamically based software Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.05.9901271619090.229926-100000@goodall1.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990127141601.007edc40@customcpu.com>
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What two items? FreeBSD and Linux? al7oj@al7oj.ampr.org and al7oj@al7oj.#nak.ak.usa.noam? statically based software and dynamically based software? Last I checked, Freebsd-newbies was for discussion, not questions. FreeBSD-questions is for questions. Anyway, I'll take a stab at telling you something that you want to know. FreeBSD and Linux are different in that there is only one FreeBSD, whereas Linux is only a kernel, and there are a number of distributions. Linux supports more hardware faster, but FreeBSD is more stable and can run Linux binaries. As for the e-mail addresses, I don't know, but my best guess is that they are both yours. As for statically and dynamically based software, static software is self-contained but dynamic software relies on library files. static is bigger, dynamic requires you to keep the appropriate library files handy. On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Michael A. Endsley wrote: > Can some one tell me the difference between these 2 items? > I want to download software, but the pages list for either of the 2. > I am running FreeBSD 3.0-R as just a home user. > Thanks > Mike > > __________________________________________________________ > OS of CHOICE? UNIX (FreeBSD), LINUX (Debian), and OS/2Warp > al7oj@customcpu.com > al7oj@al7oj.ampr.org or al7oj@al7oj.#nak.ak.usa.noam > http://www.customcpu.com/personal/al7oj/ > > __________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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