Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 07:38:41 -0400 From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nice comments about FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000920073841.A4921@blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009191732150.22042-100000@peloton.runet.edu>; from brett@peloton.runet.edu on Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 05:36:24PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009191732150.22042-100000@peloton.runet.edu>
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Folks, FreeBSD has supported ELF for quite some time. Perhaps someone who uses this software, and is familiar with it, could contact them and ask them to correct their entry? If someone with a clue can't, I'll do it. They might have to recompile their code for a newer FreeBSD, but that's it. IIRC, code for FreeBSD 2.x compiles on 4.x? ==ml (PS: ObAdvocacy: That's cool. We rock. Hard.) On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 05:36:24PM -0400, Brett Taylor wrote: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > o FreeBSD [dist: fbsd arch: freebsd] > > Install and use the freebsd binaries. You might be able to run the linux > binaries in compatibility mode (FreeBSD can run some Linux binaries), but > currently FreeBSD does not support ELF. FreeBSD is arguably the most > solid, workstation class PC operating system currently available. Very > popular for servers. May be a better multiprocess system than Linux but > Linux may be a better single user system. More stable than Linux and > avoids the similar-but-different multiple distributions problem which > plagues Linux, but Linux is more popular and supports a wider range of > hardware and add-on software (although the difference is getting pretty > small). > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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