From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 20 14:29:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cobalt7-fe.global.net.uk (cobalt7-fe.global.net.uk [195.147.250.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC8A314A18 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 14:29:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rufas@globalnet.co.uk) Received: from p49s05a07.client.global.net.uk ([195.147.229.74] helo=nobody) by cobalt7-fe.global.net.uk with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11zkkt-0006W2-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 18:08:27 +0000 From: To: Subject: backwards compatibility Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 19:40:48 -0000 Message-ID: <01bf4beb$47e12b40$4ae593c3@nobody> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0055_01BF4BEB.47E12B40" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0055_01BF4BEB.47E12B40 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, I understand from your literature that freebsd will run binaries = compiled on bsdi or linux 'out of the box'. Can I assume that it is also = backward compatble? I wanted to comile modules on freebsd that would run = on bsdi (and possibly linux) in addition to freebsd. Any thoughts? Cheers, Jonson. ------=_NextPart_000_0055_01BF4BEB.47E12B40 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hello,

I understand from your literature = that freebsd=20 will run binaries compiled on bsdi or linux 'out of the box'. Can I = assume that=20 it is also backward compatble? I wanted to comile modules on freebsd = that would=20 run on bsdi (and possibly linux) in addition to freebsd.

Any thoughts?

Cheers,

Jonson.

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