From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Jul 4 19:32:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA10832 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 19:32:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA10827 for ; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 19:32:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anarchy@crl.com) Received: from crl.crl.com (crl.com [165.113.1.12]) by mail.crl.com (8.8.8/) via SMTP id TAA15155 for ; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 19:32:53 -0700 (PDT) env-from (anarchy@crl.com) Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 19:32:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Ben Manes To: "freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Linus speaks In-Reply-To: <359EE29A.12A39BC9@netunlimited.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 4 Jul 1998, Chris Browning wrote: > It's little enough I know about linux (having my hands full at the > moment), but it's been getting good press. I figure it's a good thing > for *nix of whatever flavor. I don't grouse. We can cross-compile, > right? > > Chris Browning > brownicm@netunlimited.net most stuff, to my knowledge, you can. don't know to much bout *nix, just what I've read, and played with. Think some stuff wont port, but I'm not too sure. There was something in '89 called COFF, which was supposed to allow programs that took advantage of it to run on any *nix system, or version. doubt it worked well, though. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message