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Subject: Re: misc apps available for NetBSD ( with sharedlibs)
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From: wongm@latcs4.lat.oz.au (M.C. Wong)
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1993 13:07:25 GMT
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In article <CEA7K6.79r@cat-ufg.de> wiserner@informatik.tu-muenchen.de writes:
>Hi all.
>I compiled misc apps for NetBSD with shared-libs.
>I used Dr.Joerg Lohse's shared-libs .
>( Please no war on these,I know Sun-style shared-libs are better ...)
>I have the following items :
>
>shared-libs-package :
> > > [...] deleted~!
> >
> > Hi,
> > I am interested, and it's great actually to see some volunteer doing such
> > a task to get what most of us have been looking for! Thanks!
> >
> > Yes I am interested, and hopefully, some ftp site can be set up for it, or
> > integrate the sharelib option into the future release of *BSD!
> >
> > But, I am using 386bsd + pk0.2.4 and ready to switch to FreeBSD any time now.
> > Will it work on either one ? Thanks!
> >
> At this time not . It works only on NetBSD. In a few days I'l get another giga-disk
> and will install freebsd on it. It will take some time untill I rebuild everything
> also on freebsd.
> btw. Why don't you get NetBSD ?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
NOTE : This is a message I reply to wiserner@informatik.tu-muenchen.de, but I
think it probably worths me to get some feedback from the net b4 I leap forward.
I don't have intention of provoke any comparisons between *BSD or the like so
please ignore the message if you don't like it!
Hi,
Thanks for your time to reply. Well, basically, I am not too sure which *BSD
is the one I should choose for stability and maturity. I am really sicked of
the 386bsd patchkit way of upgrade, and since FreeBSD seems to do just to put
an end to that terrible going-on, and it stays quite the same as the original
386bsd, plus there exists upgrade kit/script to patch (final one, hopefully) it
to FreeBSD, I think that will serve many people running 386bsd +pk, and I am
one of them. On the other hand, NetBSD does seem to have its own problem that
need to be patched as well (from time to time mentioned in newsgroup), and I
hope all this thing will not trigger yet another unconscience patchkit trend!
Also, there seems to be some trouble for people running XFree-1.3 on NetBSD-0.9!
Well well well, I am very appealed to the WABI project undertaken to run
MS Windows/DOS program under NetBSD, as well as the sharedlibs stuff done by
wiserner@informatik.tu-muenchen.de. And actually, these may change my mind to
try NetBSD out!
On the other hand, I still wish for 386bsd-0.2 to come out and hopefully
upgradable from FreeBSD more easily than it does from NetBSD! And I like
the sio com driver that never complains a line of silo overflow!
Well, I don't know, it seems like WABI and sharedlibs stuff will eventually
be undertaken by someone on the net, and I might just have to sit and wait for
such a day! But the most important reaon being that, I am a M.Sc student that
embark my project/thesis on the currently running crappy 386bsd + pk-0.2.4,
and what will happen to the stuff I have done up to now is still unknown
if I switch to NetBSD right now, will my binaries still run, will the filesystem
readable by NetBSD ? I really need your opinion as well. It's almost end of the
year, and of the degree for me, I think I might even struggle through with what
I have now until more thing come along : like sharedlibs openly and officially
available as distribution option, XFree-2.0 that supports accelerated video,
more bugs fix, or perhaps even 386bsd-0.2 ?
Any feedback ? Thanks in advance!
- wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au (M.C Wong)
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