Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 18:40:29 -0700 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: sos@freebsd.org, terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux compat issue(s) Message-ID: <199610160140.SAA08780@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Wed, 16 Oct 1996 10:41:57 +0930 (CST) Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> wrote: > Because the same sort of wankers who say "Linux was the first server > platform to have a working defence against the SYN attack" (1) in the > popular press also tend to say "Linux has ELF which makes it clearly > superior to everything else which doesn't." Actually, a good argument for using ELF is "ELF is just better". For a long time, I was not at all enthusiastic about switching NetBSD to ELF. However, I have since seen the light (one of the major benefits of using ELF is that all of NetBSD's supported platforms can run from a single toolchain source). There are also cool trick wrt read-only data and other things you can do with ELF. So, it's not all marketing hype :-) Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939
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