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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!news.Stanford.EDU!kithrup.com!sef From: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) Subject: Re: FreeBSD supports BSDI executables? Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Message-ID: <CywpzL.6yB@kithrup.com> References: <NILS.94Nov2155610@gerfalke.ims.uni-stuttgart.de> <399rmb$jle@cynjut.infonet.net> <Cyt2MG.76s@luva.lb.bawue.de> <1994Nov7.135248.2250@cm.cf.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 7 Nov 1994 17:02:09 GMT Lines: 16 In article <1994Nov7.135248.2250@cm.cf.ac.uk>, Paul Richards <paul@isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk> wrote: >You sure? I know that BSDI's mosaic binary used to work because I used it for >quite a while before someone built one for FreeBSD. Most BSD/OS (BSDi's new name for their OS, not BSD/386) binaries should run under NetBSD and FreeBSD. However, each of the three groups has changed the system since the original Net/2 and 4.4-Lite distributions, including adding system calls. I would probably expect about 90% of the executables to work. I could easily write a program on any of the three systems that wouldn't work on any of the others, at least not until someone decided they wanted to be able to run my program and changed their system to be able to ;). (The advantages of free software...)