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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Portugal.EU.net!news.rccn.net!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!sandmann.prz.tu-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolfram) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NetBSD camp reaction to OpenBSD? Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 1 Dec 1995 18:04:35 GMT Organization: PRZ/TU-Berlin Lines: 32 Message-ID: <49ng3j$dc7@sandmann.prz.tu-berlin.de> References: <30B6A790.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> <49adtb$6p1@cynic.portal.ca> <49i4r6$97c@olympus.nwnet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.prz.tu-berlin.de X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950515BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1506 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10027 Anthony D'Atri (aad@nwnet.net) wrote: > > >Why should they be? Have you counted the number of different > >`distributions' of Linux lately? > > It's something like 18, I'm told. It's one of the reasons why I decided > against the PC-Unix route and bought a used Sun. > > >user space differences between the Net/Free/Open/whateverBSDs that > >you do between the different Linux distributions. They can't even > >agree on a common directory hierarchy. They agree now. > Or object-file format. As I understand it, many (all?) of them don't even No, Linux uses only two object-file formats: the "classical" a.out and the new SVR4 compatible ELF. In fact all distributions I know of can handle even installing software packages packed in the Slackware package format. > come with dump(1). Thomas -- Thomas Wolfram <thomas@aeon.in-berlin.de> Germany: 0 30 31421171 PRZ TU Berlin <wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de> abroad: +49 30 31421171 EANTC WWW: http://www.prz.tu-berlin.de/~wolf _____________________________________________________________________________ _____S__I__C____T__R__A__N__S__I__T____G__L__O__R__I__A____M__U__N__D__I_____