From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 26 14:25:17 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id OAA08389 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 26 Feb 1995 14:25:17 -0800 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA08383; Sun, 26 Feb 1995 14:25:15 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA09197; Sun, 26 Feb 1995 14:24:25 -0800 Message-Id: <199502262224.OAA09197@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: estienne.cs.berkeley.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), jbeukema@hk.super.net, ernie@tinny.eis.net.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Binary compatibility with NetBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 26 Feb 1995 13:45:06 MST." <9502262045.AA04553@cs.weber.edu> Date: Sun, 26 Feb 1995 14:24:25 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> > > To not maintain binary compatability *including* shared images would >> > > be folly. >> > >> > Bravo! I agree completely. We do not need one more fragmented, >> > incompatible flavour. >> >> Sigh. I applaud the sentiment, gentlemen. So. That simply leaves the >> simple question: Which one of YOU are going to do the work involved? > >If you think it's a difficult task, I can set aside next Saturday to >start to replace FreeBSD's libc with NetBSD's. > >I'll probably need a thud account and some disk space. > >I maintain that the incompatability is gratuitous. Those areas where >FreeBSD has code that NetBSD does not should be rolled back into NetBSD >anyway. I can see nothing but gains from doing this, so if you have the time Terry, I would encourage it. > Terry Lambert > terry@cs.weber.edu >--- >Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present >or previous employers. -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================