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#! rnews 1905 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com!nntp-hub.barrnet.net!varian.com!thumper.cis.varian.com!usenet From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 22:34:13 -0700 Organization: Lu Consulting Lines: 28 Message-ID: <316B4855.6383322@lucon.org> References: <4issad$h1o@nadine.teleport.com> <31642098.75AB4317@gnu.ai.mit.edu> <4k2cvc$j8e@park.uvsc.edu> <31657509.5E45C160@gnu.ai.mit.edu> <4k76gl$5s4@dyson.iquest.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: access7.cis.varian.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=gb2312 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; Linux 1.3.85 i586) Charlie Root wrote: > > Most FreeBSD developers are (very) easy to work with. I strongly suggest Then why do you have so many xxxBSD? > an open comment to the FreeBSD-current mailing list after you have started > running it (it is very easy to get running, approx 1/2Hr of work.) You I have no plan to run an old a.out system on my machines. I am a big fan of shared library among other things. C is not my main programming language. I usually write in C++. With ELF, I can build a shared C++ library without any ugly hacks. Dynamic load a shared C++ module also works like a shared C module. With ELF, I can do so many things I am doing right now and planning to do if I have the time, which I don't think are feasible with a.out. > AFAIK, you will likely find people who would advocate your help in the FreeBSD > project, if you give them a chance. I am just hoping to try out an ELF FreeBSD on my server. Maybe when FreeBSD finally goes ELF, if it ever does from what I have seen here, I may have no reason to try FreeBSD at all :-(. H.J.