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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!news.inap.net!news1!not-for-mail From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux X-Nntp-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Message-ID: <4jsua0$6oc@dyson.iquest.net> Sender: news@iquest.net (News Admin) Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine References: <4issad$h1o@nadine.teleport.com> <315E0F1A.4E3FB53D@lucon.org> <Pine.LNX.3.91.960401105810.31921A-100000@gallup.cia-g.com> <4jqpn8$euv@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 04:20:16 GMT Lines: 21 In article <4jqpn8$euv@agate.berkeley.edu>, Nick Kralevich <nickkral@america.CS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: > >ELF is a better binary format than AOUT. I don't think anyone disagrees >with that. > It is more complex and has more capabilities, but is Linux using all of the fancy capabilites. Most of what Linux has gotten with ELF is real shared libs like FreeBSD already has had, isn't it? > >FreeBSD is just behind the times and backwards. > Not really, but we are careful :-). Please refer to the pain of the Linux users in the Linux mailing lists during the transition. FreeBSD will manage the transition better for it's user base (when it needs to transition.) ELF support already exists in FreeBSD-current kernel (roughly equiv to the 1.3.X series of Linux.) John dyson@freebsd.org