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From: jhenders@vanbc.wimsey.com (John Henders)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
Date: 1 Dec 1995 18:33:20 -0800
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jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
> : 2) At the time of Linux 1.0.9, console hangs were prevelant, causing
> : grief for users. The only solution was to upgrade, but there was
> : only so far we could upgrade w/o installing a totally new Slackware and
> : going through the same grief (ELF).
> Hm. It's my recollection that you could upgrade pretty far (kernel wise) w/o
> any of the utilities breaking.
>Read what he's saying again - he'd have had to go to ELF, hardly a
>"without any of the utilities breaking" scenario..
But he's wrong. I've upgraded my kernel as far as 1.3.45 (current as of a
few days ago, and I still run an all a.out system. The only problem I've
had with any utility, including a lot of base utilities installed
originally in Dec 93, is that the top display has a few weirdnesses in
it, due to recent rearrangements in the /proc filesystem.
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