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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:5070 comp.os.386bsd.misc:991 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!uknet!festival!castle.ed.ac.uk!richard From: richard@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs NetBSD 0.9, wait? [was: Re: from 386bsd0.1 to FreeBSD or NetBSD 0.9] References: <CD7rGD.2p3@taronga.com> <hastyCD8A1E.9AA@netcom.com> <DERAADT.93Sep12015652@newt.fsa.ca> Message-ID: <CDCIvx.3BM@festival.ed.ac.uk> Sender: news@festival.ed.ac.uk (remote news read deamon) Organization: University of Edinburgh Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1993 13:31:09 GMT Lines: 17 In article <DERAADT.93Sep12015652@newt.fsa.ca> deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) writes: >2. NetBSD 0.9 generates incompatible binaries by default, but it can also > link and execute old-style executables. This is true and good, but the change in db format has made a lot of old executables useless. A large proportion of interesting programs access the password file, for example. Also, programs whose data segment isn't a multiple of the page size don't work any more (eg kcl saved states). -- Richard -- "For thousands of years, [homoeopathic magic] was known to the sorcerors of ancient India, Babylon and Egypt, as well as of Greece and Rome, and at this day it is still resorted to by cunning and malignant savages in Australia, Africa and Scotland." - J G Frazer, The Golden Bough