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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux
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Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 06:34:24 GMT
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In <2n9f90$9em@great-miami.iac.net> skyhook@iac.net (Chris Thompson) writes:
> What, then, is the point? Never in the year and a half of running Linux
> (since 0.99pl6) have I ever needed to make the WHOLE system again. I've
> recompiled the kernel maybbe 100 times, but that once you have the
> config to the way you want it (SCSI/NO SCSI, etc) it's
> 'make dep;make' if I need a new route binary, I get the new route
> source and make it. It's not exactly brain surgery.
Believe me, it's far easier to say "make world" every month or two, and
back in the morning to find everything sitting there installed - new. This
is a lot easier than trying to track all of the bugs that are fixed, and
all of the components that are upgraded replaced.
(Those people who receive the commit messages for FreeBSD will attest to
the number and rate at which changes come in. - I assume the same applies
to NetBSD.)
> I cant comprehend a situation where I would want to recompile EVERY
>binary on my system.
As I said - far easier than tracking every bug-fix.
>But tell me this about NetFreeBSD (Things I REALLY dont know)
>Is there MS-DOG Emulation? ( until I see quicken for Linux, I need DOS apps)
>Will WABI/WINE work there? (I'd love to see Word for Windows under X)
>is there iBCS2 support? (In ALPHA for Linux, run SCO binaries)
An MSDOS emulator for *BSD is under development. WINE is the same across
Linux and *BSD. As far as iBCS2 binary compatibility goes - I'm sure that
if someone were interested in developing that there would be interest ;-)
Geoff.
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