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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.moneng.mei.com!uwm.edu!daffy!uwvax!grilled.cs.wisc.edu!jcargill From: jcargill@grilled.cs.wisc.edu (Jon Cargille) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Barriers to NetBSD/FreeBSD binary compatibility? Date: 15 Aug 1994 20:56:30 GMT Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 23 Message-ID: <32okpu$17u@spool.cs.wisc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: grilled.cs.wisc.edu Can someone outline the reasons behind the lack of binary compatibility between NetBSD and FreeBSD? This seems like a major bummer for the user community, and I think it's one of the reasons that there are fewer "neatly packaged" freeware programs for *BSD than for "the other free unix clone" (mention no names, incite no flames... ;-) The "ports" collection for FreeBSD is very nice, but I've heard that they won't run for NetBSD users. Seriously, I think everyone would benefit if NetBSD and FreeBSD could both run the same binaries. But from what I understand, they can't. Why not? Jon -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Jon Cargille jcargill@cs.wisc.edu Want your .sig compressed? Reasonable rates and fast turnaround. Call today!