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From: dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu (David E. Cross)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: FreeBSD ELF support
Date: 14 Mar 1996 16:16:31 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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I know I am going to get flamed for this, but oh well....


Would someone PLEASE tell me what the big deal is over ELF.  Is the entire PC
UNIX world TRYING to drive me to NT???  The Linux ELF thing was the thing that
FINALLY brought me over to FreeBSD (I have wanted to for a while but the issues
of porting made me hold back.  Until ELF came along, and nothing worked anymore
anyway).  What are the advantages of ELF.
(Convince me, why should I go through either the headache of converting
everything to ELF, or having two copies of most of the libraries)

--
David Cross
CIS Consultant