From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 15 18:52:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA25437 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 18:52:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.29]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA25432; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 18:52:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA08780; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 18:40:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199610160140.SAA08780@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> X-Authentication-Warning: lestat.nas.nasa.gov: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Michael Smith Cc: sos@freebsd.org, terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux compat issue(s) Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 18:40:29 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 16 Oct 1996 10:41:57 +0930 (CST) Michael Smith 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