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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.help:8370 comp.os.386bsd.questions:6761 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!headwall.Stanford.EDU!kithrup.com!sef From: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) Subject: Re: SUMMARY: FreeBSD vs. Linux Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. References: <2brq1b$a8j@news.ysu.edu> <CGC6nH.J08@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <2btv9t$4nb@news.cs.tulane.edu> <2bui0j$blb@fw.novatel.ca> Message-ID: <CGCroz.B6r@kithrup.com> Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1993 00:21:57 GMT Lines: 13 In article <2bui0j$blb@fw.novatel.ca> hpeyerl@novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl) writes: >Run it on a Mac >Run it on an Amiga There are, I believe, both mac and amiga ports of linux happening. >Run real shared libraries. Dynamicly-linked shared libraries were announced for testing for linux before they were announced for *bsd. If I remember correctly, from looking at it, it was also less of a hack, and used ELF instead of a.out. (Even COFF would be better than a.out for shared libraries, sheesh.)